Growing up in Buenos Aires, Hernán Losada gazed at two posters on his bedroom wall: Michael Jordan and Juan Román Riquelme, the Argentine soccer star.
A three-hour time difference with the American Midwest kept Losada up deep into many nights watching Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
“Sometimes one or two in the morning,” D.C. United’s new coach remembered. “I was a huge fan of the competitiveness, the spectacle, the discipline — a lot of things to put into practice in any team but also into life.”
Riquelme was the local hero.