It would be an exaggeration to say Jorge Moreira’s future has been looming over the Portland Timbers’ season, because in our 2020, the word looming has developed a more narrow use. We can’t throw those words like those around as easily anymore; at least, not without a failing perspective. Looming is the path of the novel coronavirus. Looming is how our country deals with the realities of its racist past. The resolution of a soccer player’s loan just can’t be looming, right now.
But in terms of the Timbers’ 2020 hopes, Moreira’s future was important. And now, that future has arrived.