Newcomer Will Bruin was obviously not around the Seattle Sounders during last year’s Clint Dempsey health-scare drama.
Playing last season in Houston, Bruin heard about how a heart issue short-circuited Dempsey’s season as the star forward missed the final 16 matches, including the MLS Cup victory over Toronto.
But now, with his own eyes, he gets the up-and-close view of Dempsey every day in training at Starfire Sports.
And he sometimes asks himself — what was Dempsey’s issue again?
“It must have been a rumor,” Bruin said with a wry smile.
Very few people figured a recovering Dempsey would now be in the middle of such impact goal-scoring — in Major League Soccer or for the U.