Head Coach Brendan Burke’s squad embarked on another preseason trip earlier this week, heading out for northern Virginia to face DC United’s new affiliate Loudoun United FC of the USL Championship and Richmond Kickers of USL League One. Burke noted in his weekly media call that there are more USL teams affiliated with Major League Soccer clubs.
“First off, I think it’s a great sign of what our ownership recognized about three or four years back now, that we were kind of on the leading edge of the youth development front, along with a couple of the west-coast teams.