Jamie Clark is only surprised that it’s taken everybody else so long to see what he sees in Cristian Roldan.
The men’s soccer coach at the University of Washington shook his head at the national broadcast of the Sounders’ 3-1 win over Portland last Sunday, bemused at the announcers’ bemusement of Roldan’s timely leap that led to his goal off a corner kick.
“Little do they know that he’s the best header for a small guy in the entire league,” Clark said. “That’s one of the first things we ever noticed about him. He was a volleyball player growing up.