In the early hours of Aug. 5, 2012, Columbus Crew SC lost a family member.
"We had the game in D.C. and we didn’t find out until a little after 4:00 or 5:000 in the morning," Ethan Finlay remembered. "It was a real shock obviously."
Kirk Urso was a rookie in 2012 out of the University of North Carolina. He was selected by the Black & Gold with the 10th pick in the Supplemental Draft, shortly after Finlay was selected at the same point in the MLS SuperDraft.
"I just remember sitting there watching as the Supplemental Draft goes thinking, ‘I can’t believe this guy’s on the board still,’" Finlay recounted.