VANCOUVER, B.C. – Onetime Sounders star forward Fredy Montero laughs when describing how he met the Cuban defector who became his best friend.
Montero joined the fledgling Sounders in training camp from his native Colombia in 2009 and started chatting up the “white guy’’ running sprints next to him. Though Montero knew only a few English words, he figured the other player might speak a second language.
“I tried to talk to him in English and I said, ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ ’’ Montero recalled Thursday. “And the guy said, ‘Yes, of course, I’m from Cuba.