Orlando City SC are a curious expansion team. Always offering so much potential, and yet relentlessly falling short. They have been caught in a relentless cycle of rebuilds, which at first offer hope before eventually ending in disaster.
Ever since they entered MLS in 2015, which is now five seasons, they have spent, recruited stars, hired new managers, and yet always ended with the same result: missing the playoffs.
They will enter their sixth season in 2020 with a new head coach, their fourth new head coach across those six seasons. James O’Connor was fired at the end of last season, not unjustifiably, and that decisions thrusts the Lions back to the start of the rebuilding process once again.