2016 has not been kind to Maurice Edu. The central defensive midfielder/center back was injured late last year with stress fractures in his tibia. It has not been an easy road back. Tibial stress fractures are an insidious injury - the path back is slow and aggravating the injury sets the entire process back to the beginning.
Edu endured the laborious process, taking things slow and not playing in a competitive match until September with Bethlehem Steel FC. He followed the program and finally seemed poised to make his return to the starting lineup, however in a cruel twist of fate he injured himself at the open practice on Saturday.