Mikaël Silvestre only played eight games with the Timbers, but in the video he recorded to honor Friday’s occasion, it’s clear he left with at least one lasting memory of Portland.
He wasn’t the only player from the club’s 2013 Major League Soccer squad to send a message. Futty Danso, the team’s longest-tenured player at the time, did also, as did the man they call Captain Jack: Jack Jewsbury. A player who was the favorite of May 1, 2013’s honoree also offered his thoughts, with Ryan Johnson calling his time with Atticus Lane-Dupre “one of my memorable moments” of his lone season with Portland.