The Guardian took on the rather Herculean effort to profile every single player from every single World Cup team, and of course that means looking in on our own Gustav Svensson (Sweden) and Roman Torres (Panama).
Svensson’s quote about soccer in the US is particularly fun - the rutabaga (a swede joke!), it seems, enjoys the ostentatious displays put on before the matches. “There’s fire, there are fireworks, big American flags and the anthem live before every game. I think that’s cool, it helps the motivation before the game.” If the Sounders are looking for ways to convince him to stay past this year, an easy solution seems to have just presented itself - more flames and booms.