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Orlando City’s Jacksonville Trip Could Be Most Important in Club History

Orlando City played the Jacksonville University Dolphins Saturday morning to conclude its Jacksonville preseason residency. While the team has stayed together for a portion of the preseason before in Sanford and Jacksonville, the 2018 trip is the most important one yet.

The purpose of preseason trips is for the players and staff to get to know each other. Staying in a hotel and traveling on a team bus every day provides an opportunity for camaraderie you don’t get when the players drive separately to training and live their regular daily lives.

The trip to Jacksonville itself isn’t what made the 2018 venture important, but the changes that have been made in the squad are.