Our D.C. United season review series started off with an easy one, but now it gets tricky. Vytautas Andriuškeviu010dius, better known as Vytas, came to the District in August, with United sending $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money to the Portland Timbers for the Lithuanian international. It seemed at the time that there would be real competition between him and Joseph Mora for the left back job, while guys like Oniel Fisher and Nick DeLeon would no longer have to regularly fill in over there.
When United unveiled Vytas (and Bill Hamid, whose loan was sealed at the same time), Dave Kasper told media that when discussing trade targets at left back, Ben Olsen had specifically mentioned acquiring the Black-and-Red’s newest field player during the winter.