PORTLAND, Oregon – The evening was going to be a special one for his family regardless of the night’s result. That the Portland Timbers snapped their four-game losing streak on the same day Sebastián Blanco and his wife celebrated their daughter’s first birthday made Wednesday night’s 2-0 win over Toronto FC all the more memorable.
“It’s a special day …,” Blanco confessed, afterward, having walked onto the field for the national anthems with one-year-old Felicitas in his arms. “It was an amazing moment in my life. It was good, because after that, we were able to deliver a win.