When Atlanta United announced their annual year-end roster moves, one particular decision seemed to catch a lot of fans by surprise. After spending 2021 away on loan with Newell’s Old Boys in Argentina, fan-favorite defender Franco Escobar was returning to Atlanta United.
Many rightfully assumed that we had seen the last of Escobar in Atlanta, and we still may have, but Atlanta United’s Technical Director Carlos Bocanegra threw fuel on the fires of speculation in his end-of-year press conference that evening.
Doug Roberson of the AJC started the press conference by asking Bocanegra about the intriguing contract decisions for Alec Kann and Franco Escobar.