Sporting Kansas City 3 (Sallói 23, Feilhaber 45+, Blessing 51)
Chicago Fire 2 (Besler own goal 28, Accam 78)
Ego is an important part of a soccer player’s emotional toolkit, because every part of the game is a winnowing process - can your touch handle this tempo? Your ideas? &c. Even those blessed with great athletic gifts will soon find peers who ask these questions, and eventually more than peers. Ego allows us to dream of the hero’s journey, to imagine it as our own.
Unfortunately, the behaviors that served us well in our youth can become burdens in other situations - towering self-belief can become a delusion, denying others a place in the structure: All critics are betrayers, all direction is jealousy.