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Guilherme Torres is one of our newest writers on Massive Report. He is a Brazilian sports journalist who recently moved to Columbus three months ago, but has been following the club for the last years. You can find him on Twitter at @grtorres.

Here is his first Massive Report story.

Columbus Crew SC’s sporting director and head coach Gregg Berhalter said on the club’s 2016 season-ending interview, in early November, that the team would have as many as four new starters in the upcoming MLS season.

The coach could not have been more accurate, as Zack Steffen, Jonathan Mensah, Jukka Raitala and Mohammed Abu all started Crew SC’s 2017 season opening 1-1 draw against the Chicago Fire last Saturday at MAPFRE Stadium.