2019 RSL Player Profiles: Andrew Putna

Mike DiNovo-USA TODAY SportsThe 2019 Player Profiles is a day-by-day guide to Real Salt Lake’s 2019 roster. Any player with under fewer than 360 regular season minutes will lead the profiles, and we’ll continue until we reach RSL’s top player for the year.

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After a year in which much of the conversation was around life without its star goalkeeper, you might be forgiven for forgetting a little about Andrew Putna.

After all, he had played little over his RSL tenure, owing to his backup position behind Nick Rimando. He played second fiddle to David Ochoa at Real Monarchs, though that’s largely owing to a need to sit on the first-team bench.

All that placed Putna at the back of our minds,…