It took defender Chase Gasper a little while to get going during his rookie season, but he once he took off, he didn’t look back. Bothered by a nagging hamstring injury and stuck behind former captain Francisco Calvo on the depth chart, the left back out of Maryland started in a pair of Open Cup wins but didn’t get his first MLS start until Minnesota faced off against expansion club FC Cincinnati at the end of June. The Loons put the screws to Cincy in that one, dropping the visiting squad 7-1. Stretching back to those Open Cup victories, the run the Cincy win sparked meant that Gasper didn’t experience a loss through his first 11 competitions across MLS and the Open Cup.
Chase Gasper Talks USMNT
