Tyler Adams woke up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, still feeling the effects of a six-hour time change from Lyon – where he had played the second of two games with the U.S. men’s national team – to New York.
By the time the Red Bulls lined up to take on the Seattle Sounders that night, at 8 p.m. local time, he and teammate Tim Parker were taking part in what felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone, as their body clocks were reading 2 a.m. before referee Allen Chapman blew the opening whistle.