It wasn’t quite how Jack de Vries imagined it as a 13-year-old when he joined the Philadelphia Union Academy, but the first-year homegrown became the latest to make his senior team debut when he stepped on the field on Thursday.
“They were pretty strange circumstances with no fans and there wasn’t an external atmosphere but we were also trying to hold a lead so when I came on I knew I had to defend and stay compact,” de Vries said about his first MLS action. “I knew I had to step up and see out the game.