Javier Morales wasn’t immediately available on the day that for so many years, through season after season of what became trademarked magnificence, he feared.
In the hours after one of Major League Soccer’s best-ever playmakers made it official, putting an end to a transcendent career that lasted nearly 20 years — 10 of which came as Real Salt Lake’s midfield star — Morales was in class.
Because when you call it, when you force yourself to face that reality head on, you have to have a plan in place.
So as fans flooded his social media accounts with love and praise after the announcement, Morales was instead zoned in, participating in a FIFA-sanctioned coaching license class online that took up a good chunk of his Thursday afternoon.