It’s been a long, globe-spanning road for Maxi Moralez to reach New York City.
Our new Designated Player has played the game in Argentina, Russia, Italy and Mexico before descending upon Major League Soccer and NYCFC in 2017.
The diminutive playmaker, nicknamed “the flask”, began his career at Racing Club in his native Buenos Aires.
Without his father’s encouragement, it could have all panned out very differently for Maxi, as he revealed in his first interview upon landing in the United States.
He told NYCFC.com: “I was born in a town three hours from Buenos Aires.