WASHINGTON – On an unusually warm January afternoon, days after landing in D.C., Edison Flores–wearing a thick black jacket to go with his familiar grin–sits inside an empty Audi Field, overlooking the ground that has just become his home. The field is covered, protected against the harsher conditions that will surely come, but Flores, having lived in Denmark for two years while playing for Aalborg BK, knows all too well about colder weather. He doesn’t care. All he can do right now is smile as he looks ahead to life in the capital city.
“I can’t wait. I’m aching to go,” says Flores, as he breaks down his preseason itinerary like a kid ready to go to Disney World.