“In soccer, you see a lot of guys go down, and they’re just making a scene,” says Dr. Michael Morris. “But when it looks like a real injury, you’re nervous about what happened to him. Especially if it’s somebody you operated on.”
Morris would know. As the Seattle Sounders’ chief medical officer and team orthopedic surgeon since the team’s Major League Soccer debut, he often found himself jogging onto the pitch to tend to fallen players. This made him a familiar face to fans, despite the grim circumstances in which they’d typically see him. If the player popped up, Morris would retreat to the sidelines, relieved. But when a
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