Yoshimar Yotún and Sacha Kljestan had a less-than-friendly first encounter.
It was August 2017, and Kljestan, then a New York Red Bull, had just received a pass on the touchline. Yotún, playing in his first game with City, stepped up to the ball and swatted him in the face.
“When that game finished I went and apologized,” Yotún said. “We talked for a bit. He played with a friend of mine, Behrang Safari, who I played with in Malmö. Those are things that happen in games. Now we’re teammates.”
The new teammates had a much friendlier encounter last week in Los Angeles at the MLS Media & Marketing tour.