Birthplace: Overland Park, KS
It’s unfortunate when a player is better known for having a brother than for having his own quite proficient skillset, but here we are with Nick Besler.
I’m sure the first thing people think with Besler is about his long-throwing brother over in Kansas City, Matt Besler, but Nick is his own player, and he has his own MLS contract.
See, that’s one thing we couldn’t say at the beginning of the year. We couldn’t say that Nick Besler was an MLS player. A year ago, we might have been able to — he’d been a Portland Timbers player for two years, but he never made a first-team appearance for them.