Midweek press conferences are often a venue to chew on club minutiae — injuries, contracts, babies being born, all the fun stuff — outside the immediate urgency of a match. But when asked a question on Tuesday about the status of recent Navy pro sports waiver recipient Matthew Nocita, his team’s first round college draft pick earlier this year, Gerhard Struber was laser-focused on his current players ahead of Thursday’s game against Atlanta.
“This is not a topic for me right now,” said the Austrian whose New York Red Bulls team has started to hit its stride in his second full year on the touchline.