Minutes after it was over Saturday night and Orlando City had a win, Adrian Heath imitated a plane taking off a runaway and climbing.
"We have to stay with this," he said, pausing at the top of the imaginary take-off.
There's pressure, said Heath, to keep up with the Lions' upward trajectory off the pitch: the swelling fan base, the new training facility, the new downtown stadium.
The doubled-edged sword for the affable and fiery Lions coach, of course, is to extract remarkable results from a MLS soccer franchise that is still on training wheels.