After former captain Brad Davis returned to his home state of Missouri with Sporting Kansas City over the offseason, the Houston Dynamo were left with a slight uncertainty in that position for the first time in history.
Wade Barrett, the Dynamo’s first captain, kept the position he held with the San Jose Earthquakes when the team moved to the Bayou City in 2006. Brian Ching was the natural replacement in 2010 after Barrett’s retirement, having served as vice captain under Barrett. Following Ching’s retirement in 2014, it was a logical progression to Davis, a Dynamo original who had often worn the armband when Ching was not in the starting lineup.