Brooklyn Raines

It was before you'd even made your Subaru Park debut, which was something you had been looking forward to for a very long time.

Now that you have a number of home games under your belt, what has it been like to be this guy who's been from the area, grown up in the academy, and now you're performing at this level in front of your family and friends every weekend at Super Park.

Yeah, I know.

I think what we said before this started was like 50, 51.

Yeah, I mean, that's something I've dreamt of ever since I was in the academy of playing for this team.

And to say I played 51 and started however many means so much to me.

But I'm also going out there and playing for my family as well, for my friends that come to watch.

I'm putting on performance for them.

We had a few comments on individual performances.

Kevin on email said, first, I felt Turner, Raines, and Winder had stellar games.

It feels like each game you can see a little bit more rust off Winder.

I think we covered that.

We haven't talked about Raines at all.

Were you impressed by him in this one?

So, you know, the things that always I like about him are just kind of like, you know, again, you talk about a player who has grown so much since we first saw him, you know, at the beginning of the year.

And it was like, he brought up all this sort of historical stuff.

Yeah, and, and you can just see that sort of difference.

Brooklyn Raines being asked to play a more defensive version.

Like, there are players who can come into this who can make it better for the Revs without, you know, suddenly going into the free agency bin or something like that.

But, um, yeah, just, uh, still, still a work in progress under Mitrovic, for sure.

I mean, Matisse Albert looks like an, an incredibly exciting young product.

I'm pretty bullish on Brooklyn Raines.

I think he was really, really strong.

Um, obviously Julian Hall.

This is gonna be a tough test.

Yeah, really good defensively, but it's also a really young back line, and you've got Raines obviously and Miller in the lineup today, who have been really consistent young players.

Now, they've just come off a US Men's National Team camp, getting some really good experience there at a high level, playing in front of big crowds, and getting results as well.

That'll give them some life moving forward.

But that provides challenges, because any one of those players can interchange at any moment and make life difficult for the back line of the Sounders.

New England in possession right now on the right side.

Here's Matt Polster, who throws a ball up here to Brooklyn Raines.

Raines back to Polster, trying to find some gaps here in Seattle's defense and trying to slip a ball all the way through to Langoni.

From left to right, Austin Trusty, Chris Richards, George Cam- George Campbell, and Alex Freeman in the back line.

Midfield of, uh, Brooklyn Raines and Gio Reyna.

Uh, Matís Albert, Malik Tillman, and Yunus Musah in the front three.

Well, a- across the line of three.

He was okay.

So-

In my mind, in my mind, I don't see how Yunus Musah isn't at least in like that Brooklyn Raines mode where it's like, "Yeah, he can do a job." He's a, he's a, he's a enough of a hooper that we can keep him, and when we need something done, Yunus Musah goes out there to do it.

Yep.