Eight days after Major League Soccer entered the unusual, suspending its 2020 regular season amid the world’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, Portland Timbers head coach Giovanni Savarese was engaging in part of his normal. He was addressing the media, only instead of standing in front of a backdrop at the Timbers Training Center in Beaverton, Oregon, or sitting on a stage for after a match at Providence Park, Savarese was at home, holding a video conference with those he would typically be seeing face-to-face. Microphones and cameras had given way to laptop screens and iPhones, for now.
“Good morning, guys, I miss you all .