FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Every professional athlete remembers their debut; that initial rush of stepping onto the field or the court or the ice for the first time, the roar of the crowd, the sense of occasion.
They remember it, of course, if they can stay conscious long enough to experience it.
“My first couple steps out there, I was kind of blacking out, you know?” Zach Herivaux said playfully after seeing his first MLS minutes in the late stages of Sunday afternoon’s loss to the Philadelphia Union. “Like, where am I supposed to be?
“But once I got my touches, the guys communicated with me and I did well I thought.