[Editor’s note: This piece originally ran on March 2 and has been updated.]
It was nearing the end of the 2016 Major League Soccer regular season, and the Houston Dynamo had lost again.
Will Bruin walked into the postgame locker room angry, discouraged and out of answers. He finished the 2016 campaign with career lows in goals, minutes and starts. He wasn’t playing and he wasn’t producing, an anomaly for one of the league’s brightest forwards.
Yet despite another missed opportunity on the pitch, Bruin’s teammates didn’t mirror his feelings.
“[I’m] super competitive, and I go [into the locker room] and see guys who don’t necessarily care that you’re in dead last or that you aren’t doing [well] and are just happy to be playing, it frustrates me,” Bruin said.