Heading into Thursday morning, the Philadelphia Union already owned two of the top six picks in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft. But an important day in the club’s rebuild was immediately magnified by the time Commissioner Don Garber stepped up to the podium to kick things off at 1 p.m.
Just then, the Union brass was finalizing a deal with Colorado to bring in another top six pick, dealing Zach Pfeffer and general allocation money in an ultimate effort to completely reshape the defense.
“I didn’t sleep very well last night because we had all kinds of plots up our sleeves to try and get the No.