2019 RSL Player Profiles: Joao Plata

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsThe never-ending Joao Plata saga seems as though it may have an end on RSL’s side, anyway. After the coming and going of multiple transfer rumors about the 5-foot-2 winger, RSL declined Plata’s option ahead of the 2020 season. Without any whisper of a contract renegotiation, one can assume that Plata won’t be back in Salt Lake next season.

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise, has he initially fell out of favor with then-coach Mike Petke and never really made his way back into the lineup throughout the 2019 season. While he made 17 appearances last year, he only started two of those games and played a total of 305 minutes for the claret and cobalt. That number…