Oscar Pareja knows that Sunday night’s game at FC Dallas (8:30 pm EST, FOX35 Plus) won’t be just another game for him.
Pareja spent the better part of two decades in Frisco, TX, first as a player from 1998-2005, then as an academy director and assistant from 2008-11, and finally as the head coach from 2014-18, a reign in which he brought home a Supporters’ Shield and a U.S. Open Cup. This will be his first time back in Dallas since departing the club for Tijuana at the end of the 2018 season.
“I’m coming [back] to a place where I spent most of my life and my career as a player and coach, and also to a place where my kids were born and the place where I have such great ties with friends and family and the community and the Club and even the players there,” said Pareja at his weekly press conference on Friday.