Editor's Note: The Portland Timbers and Thorns FC have partnered with iconic, local comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics to create player-specific superheroes in recognition of National Superhero Day. As part of the project, artist Ron Chan and comic book writer Paul Tobin created fictionalized origin stories for each player, detailing the genesis of their individual “super-powers.
Growing up in the Argentine city of Lomas de Zamora, seven year old Sebastián Blanco had his favorite soccer ball stolen by an evil soccer team known as the Emerald Anacondas. Most children his age would’ve only muttered curses and resigned themselves to fate, but Blanco has always been of a different temper.