Once a Metro · Dec 15, 2018
Requiem for a season
This is a story about hindsight. It could also be a story about narratives, about bias, about analysis, about searching for answers in a meaningless arbitrary world.
It’s definitely a story about the New York Red Bulls’ 2018 season.
Beginning with the end
Tim Parker scored RBNY’s last goal of this year, the match-winner in an Eastern Conference Final series the Red Bulls lost. Sufficient time has passed since then to look back, examine, re-live what a year it was for the team.
Parker’s goal came nine months and seven days after Danny Royer scored in an empty* stadium in San José, Costa Rica in the Red Bulls’ first competitive game of 2018.