In a strange development post-match this evening, Amar Sejdic was pulled from the video-conference with the media to attend a team meeting.
Clement Diop, it had already been announced, would be the third member of the Impact staff presented, after Sejdic and coach Thierry Henry, who had already faced the press.
It must have been some team-meeting. After waiting for 51 minutes after the withdrawal of Sejdic, awaiting journalists were advised by the Impact Communications Director he was closing the Zoom meeting, as it was not yet apparent if Clement Diop would appear after all.
Until that point everything had seemed perfectly normal.