The Tribune sat down with Elliot Fall recently to discuss the season, the club’s record-breaking signings and more.
Members of La Barra Real cheer on Real Salt Lake during their game against the LA Galaxy, May 31, 2023.Ryan Smith and David Blitzer took over the Real Salt Lake franchise
Fall had a contract expire at the end of 2022. And while there’s been no formal announcement about an extension, Fall doesn’t seem bothered. But we all knew that there’s talent here, there’s continuity here, there’s a group that’s committed and invested in getting it right. So almost as quickly as that skid happened, we were able to kind of turn things around a little bit, won a few games, things started trending upward.
In past years, RSL has said they take the U.S. Open Cup seriously. But it seems like it’s different this year. Why? I guess why it’s different this year is I think we’re a little deeper team. I think we have a little more talent throughout the roster. And second to that, if you go back and look, the Open Cup game we lost last year was right after [Damir Kreilach] got hurt. We didn’t have [Jefferson Savarino] yet. We didn’t have Anderson [Julio]. It was a group that wasn’t full.
Is he physically the same guy that he was in 2021 before the injury when he was an All-Star and should have been Best 11? I don’t know. Probably not quite. But he adapts. He’s a pro. He’s found ways to still be effective and make it work. This is a unique year. This is the 2023 RSL and 2023 Dami. He’s doing a great job of helping the team week in and week out.
It takes time. The reality is if we had gone out and signed all of these players last summer, it probably wouldn’t have worked. The reality is when you go in and you bring that number of new players into an organization and into a system, it’s really, really hard to integrate on the fly that number of players, that cultural shift, all of those pieces that you have to be cognizant of.
So they invested in Andrés Gómez, invested in Brayan Vera, and then obviously invested in Chicho. Even if you go back to last year — we bought [Jefferson] Savarino, we bought Anderson Julio, we bought Diego Luna. So there’s been investment, there’s been commitment to doing this the right way and doing it in a long-term sustainable way.There’s a few layers to that.
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