Under normal circumstances, the remote press conference D.C. United held yesterday would have been about issues like handling the Philadelphia Union’s high-pressing tactics, or injured players, or the Black-and-Red’s efforts to improve in a new formation after a frustrating defeat on Tuesday.
2020 does not offer normal circumstances, however, and with the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the focus in the American sporting landscape has shifted — for good reason — away from the field. As such, United head coach Ben Olsen, goalkeeper Earl Edwards Jr.