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City Confident in Others Stepping Up in Kaka's Absence

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Simon Veness is a beat writer covering Orlando City SC for MLSsoccer.com. He has been writing about soccer for various media in the UK and USA since 1981. You can view all of his stories written for MLSsoccer.com here.

Matias Perez Garcia knows he is not Kaká. The Orlando City SC captain is not the kind of player you simply replace on a one-to-one basis, but it will be up to the Argentine midfielder to do his best Brazilian impression against the Philadelphia Union on Saturday (7:30 pm ET, MLS LIVE).

With the Lions’ talisman sidelined for at least six weeks with the hamstring injury that saw him make an early exit from Orlando’s season-opening win over New York City FC, the team will have to get creative to fill such a big void over the next few games.