Herriman • On the 11th anniversary of the trade that sent him one state west, eternally altering the timeline of his life, Kyle Beckerman looks onto a sprawl of grass fields at the southern most tip of the Salt Lake Valley. On the field below teammates are wrapping up the day’s training session, some who grew up in Real Salt Lake’s established culture he helped cultivate, some who’ve been around for a bit, others still relatively new.
In the last knockings of this muggy morning at RSL’s training complex, Beckerman wipes the sweat from his brow, as he’s asked how he’d describe this phase of his storied career.