Just when it looked like things couldn’t get any busier in the life of Sounders midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, he went out and got married. The Sounders playmaker had been admittedly exhausted after the team’s MLS Cup win in December, having played roughly 18 consecutive months without a rest after coming over in July from the Boca Juniors in Argentina.
Lodeiro, 27, who made his first on-field appearance at training camp on Friday looking every bit as dazzling as he did following his pickup last summer, insists he did try to relax the past six weeks. He traveled back to his native Uruguay, spent time with his family and — oh yeah — also married his longtime girlfriend, Micaela, with whom he has a son, Leandro, 1.