Good morning! One has to ask the question where we’d be if Thierry Henry’s children had not started crying when he went to say goodbye to them in London in early 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, before heading to the airport to return for his second season in charge of CF Montreal. Henry put his bags down and quit his job. That job went to Wilfried Nancy, a little-known assistant who had been coaching in Quebec for a decade. Now in his second season as head coach with the Columbus Crew after two in Montreal, Nancy has built the Crew into the best team in MLS and a Concacaf giant-killer with victories over Tigres and Monterrey in the last two rounds of the Champions Cup.
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