If you’d asked a decade ago where Giuseppe Rossi would be playing in 2020, I don’t think anybody would have said Major League Soccer. Certainly fewer would have said Real Salt Lake.
But time has a funny way of playing games with you.
Let’s humor time for a moment, though. The 2010-11 season saw Rossi with the joint fifth-highest goals total in La Liga, ahead of players like Karim Benzema (though behind some Ronaldo and Messi duo, whose fates were knotted together for so long.)
He was a name in American soccer not for having played here, but for having not played here, despite having the opportunity to represent such a giant on the world stage and instead choosing a smaller, somewhat boot-shaped country.