Alejandro Pozuelo had big shoes to fill when he arrived at Toronto FC as the organization’s third designated player in March 2019.
Sebastian Giovinco, Major League Soccer’s most valuable player in 2015 and Toronto’s for as long as he was with the club, had parted ways with the Reds in late January that year. The two players weren’t exactly cut from the same cloth — Pozuelo was as much a replacement for former Reds midfielder Victor Vazquez’s playmaking as he was for Giovinco’s goal-scoring — but the incoming Spaniard couldn’t avoid being asked whether he felt pressure to live up to the standard set by the outgoing Italian.