When a shaggy-haired, 18-year-old Kyle Beckerman first took the field as a professional on July 15, 2000, he shared a Miami Fusion locker room with World Cup veterans and rising youngsters that would make longstanding impacts in Major League Soccer for years to come. He trained every day with players who after retirement would move into General Manager and Head Coach roles – including Garth Lagerwey and Jeff Cassar, who served in those positions with Real Salt Lake later in his career.
On October 28, 2020, when he suited up for Real Salt Lake for the last time, he included five players as teammates who were not yet born when he made his debut 20 years earlier.