183 days. That is the length of Major League Soccer’s grueling regular season. It’s a challenge for any player or team to survive the travel, fatigue, and injuries that go along with it.
420 days. That will be the length of Nani’s combined Liga NOS and MLS seasons. It’s the equivalent to playing 2.3 MLS seasons consecutively.
The fact of the matter is playing every minute of that marathon is not possible, and you won’t find anyone more frustrated with that reality than Head Coach James O’Connor.
“It’s very frustrating because we all want everyone to play every single minute but the last thing we want is our key players – especially our DP’s – to get injured.