It’s been 20-plus years since Jim Liston used to train Greg Vanney and Dan Calichman in a small space in Pasadena, Calif.
“We had very little space,” Liston recalled. “About 2,000 square feet where we’d do physical therapy and training. We would get a dozen athletes and therapy going on at the same time, So we had to kind of figure out how to work things in a tight space.
“Maybe that was in preparation for this, I guess.”
Today, Vanney coaches Toronto FC with Calichman an assistant coach. And Liston, as the MLS club’s director of sports science, is helping look after a soccer team scattered across the city behind closed doors.