FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – As the first-ever captain of the New England Revolution and a Massachusetts native, Michael Burns – now the club’s General Manager – has been around since day one, experiencing all there’s been to experience as a member of the organization.
Burns, then, is uniquely qualified to speak to the history of the club, and as the Revolution broke ground Monday morning on a state-of-the-art, $35 million training center in Foxborough, he provided context for the momentous nature of the new development.
“With the exception of the actual launch of MLS and the formation and launch of the New England Revolution (in 1995), for me, it’s probably the second-most significant day in the history of the club,” Burns said of the groundbreaking.