Before the Union’s season is consigned completely to history, it’s worth reviewing one more angle of the way the team’s campaign transpired.
The angle in question is about player development: specifically, the development of not-quite-young-anymore outside backs Giliano Wijnaldum and Keegan Rosenberry.
Wijnaldum, a Dutchman who turned 25 in late August, was signed this past winter to be the Union’s left back of the future – indeed, the very near future. He earned the starting job for a healthy spell from late June to early September, but gave it back to Fabinho thereafter.
That phrasing is intentional.