FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – While his players bundled up in head-to-toe layers to battle the 16-degree temperatures at Tuesday morning’s first preseason training session at Gillette Stadium, New England Revolution head coach Brad Friedel waltzed onto the field in shorts.
In that sense, Friedel is very much the same coach he was last year, his focus transfixed on winning games and improving his squad every day, undistracted by external factors – or, apparently, the cold.
But in several ways, 2019 will be very different for Friedel and his staff as they enter season two in New England.