David Villa sat squished in a middle seat of a commercial flight from JFK to LAX.
He sat there for six hours when I traveled with New York City FC on a trip to Los Angeles in 2017 and got a behind-the-scenes look at how the team operates on the road. Sitting in the row opposite to Villa, a World Cup winner with Spain in 2010, I understood what this entire MLS experience meant to him, the camaraderie with teammates to sit in commercial when he certainly would be allowed to fly in first-class.