Twelve minutes.
After a meteoric rise from freshman starter at Wake Forest University to the youngest defense in Major League Soccer to a place in the starting XI in a do-or-die 2018 playoff game, Mark McKenzie had only played 12 minutes of soccer in 2019 before getting his name back onto the top half of the lineup card in late August.
In January, The homegrown defender had been shown leaping and tapping his heels together, jubilant, as he walked to the pitch as a member of a US Men’s National Team gameday roster for the first time.