“Last week was boring!”
Fafa Picault is coming off a one game suspension for yellow card accumulation. He practiced with the rest of his Philadelphia Union teammates last week — his hard work recreating pressing situations apparent in training — and then watched as they defeated New York City FC on Saturday night. He was thrilled with the result (“I hate losing,” he tells me), but for the 27-year old winger, the bright, unfiltered joy of soccer cuts through the world most cleanly on game day.
“I was probably the happiest person to come into training on Tuesday, just because I knew that we had a game on Saturday,” Picault says this week.