It may have been in the 20s on Wednesday for Jamiro Monteiro’s first day training with the Philadelphia Union, but it didn’t take head coach Jim Curtin long to see the quality of his new central midfielder.
“With talented players you can see right away how they’ll fit into the group; they’re very adaptable to whatever the team needs,” Curtin said in his weekly press conference on Wednesday. “I think that guys who are probably still young who have been at places that are a high level can kind of adjust and see what’s needed in the team.