A couple of days after Toronto FC’s MLS Cup final loss to the Seattle Sounders last December, Drew Moor and Michael Bradley were already on the same page about the coming season.
Moor felt oddly satisfied with the 2016 season the day after the Reds’ defeat. Losing the final was terrible, he said, but the team left everything it had on the field — to the defender, it felt a little bit like some otherworldly source didn’t want the team to win.
But when the captain and the veteran defender spoke in the aftermath of the loss, it was clear to both where they were going to lead their team, and the core group of players returning, next: on a path back to the MLS Cup final, one that required daily work to get there.