There is no subtle or tactful way to put this, so let’s not even pretend there is.
With all due respect to brand-new Orlando City coach Oscar Pareja, there is but one goal and one goal only.
Playoffs.
Let me repeat that:
Playoffs!
There is no gray area here.
Playoffs!!
Nothing else matters except …
PlayoffsPlayoffsPlayoffsPlayoffsPlayoffsPlayoffs!!!
Unlike most new professional coaches taking over one of the must unsuccessful franchises in the league, Pareja regrettably gets no honeymoon whatsoever. He goes straight from the wedding ceremony to the loading docks where he is expected to lift the enormous burden of never making the playoffs off Orlando City’s hunched, slouched, slumped shoulders.