A signature says a lot about a person. Whether it's the messy confidence of Winston Churchill or the unapologetic modernity of history's many of Pablo Picassos and Marcus Garveys, the solemn civic consecration symbolized by our written name --- an extension of our personality -- is something like a firm handshake.
But of course, some are firmer than others.
Let's set the scene, here: last week, NYCFC kept in lock-step with the current worldwide soccer trend of embracing the ever-expanding consumer market in China and the overseas Chinese diaspora.
Just days after Atletico Madrid striker Jackson Martinez became the latest global star to make a high-profile switch to the Chinese Super League, New York City FC announced a Chinese-language website and a foray into Weibo, a Chinese social media hub boasting half a billion users.