The light from the dressing room’s projector stretched from the cabinet above David Guzmán’s locker, over three leather couches and onto a screen pulled down from the ceiling in the middle of the room. In the shadows of the otherwise dark space was a ring of black leather chairs, a series of rectangular storage spaces built into the walls, and, on plaques that formed the room’s trim, the names of the 30 Portland Timbers who amassed the club’s 2018 squad.
The place is a player’s haven on game days, but the rest of the week, it sits inert, with the squad’s time concentrated at the adidas Timbers Training Center in Beaverton.