You’d be hard-pressed to find a greater critic of Real Salt Lake than in the club’s captain, Kyle Beckerman.
In victory and defeat, he can always be counted on to offer an honest assessment of his team, even if it doesn’t always paint a flattering picture. So after Real Salt Lake’s disappointing conclusion to the 2016 season that saw the club go winless in the final eight matches after a stellar first 27 matches to the regular season, his optimism about the direction of the team wasn’t falling on deaf ears.
“I thought we made a lot of progress,” Beckerman said of the just-completed campaign, his 17th in MLS and 10th in an RSL uniform.