Few players have made a larger impact in such a short time on the field in MLS this season than Nico Lodeiro, the Uruguayan international who signed with the Seattle Sounders last month.
The 27-year-old World Cup veteran has played a part in all six of the Sounders’ goals in his three games with the club – he scored one, assisted on two others and has the secondary assist on the final three – and he has a once stagnant Sounders team dreaming of the postseason for the first time this year.
But how exactly did the Sounders land Lodeiro, and where does he fit in the club’s changing identity under President and GM Garth Lagerwey?