That was back in the league’s inaugural season, and two months into it, Harvey’s team had yet to win a match. On Friday, the now-Utah Royals coach returns to Portland’s Providence Park with a brand new team. But oh how times have changed.
“I think that as a group we’re in a really good place right now,” Harvey said of the Utah Royals (2-1-5, 11 points), “where we’re in this balancing point of actually talking about the finer details of who we are rather than the real generic things that you do when you first get a team.