One-time teammates Bastian Schweinsteiger and Zlatan Ibrahimovic enjoyed a smile and a laugh in the tunnel Saturday before striding onto the frozen tundra of Toyota Park. But that might have been the last warm moment either of them shared in their first MLS matchup.
Because once the introductions were over, the former European superstars spent the next two hours bumping and banging on one another before the Galaxy emerged with a 1-0 victory before an announced crowd of 21,915, the largest for a regular-season game in Toyota Park history.
The weather in suburban Chicago — overcast, windy and with a windchill of 27 degrees at kickoff — was something both Schweinsteiger and Ibrahimovic are used to after playing together at Manchester United.