CHESTER — The No. 10 position exerts outsized influence in the sport of soccer, on the attentions of front offices and on what transpires on the field.

Keeping with that tradition is how the Philadelphia Union have handled the role this season.

A change in April at the No. 10 lowered what the Union as a team are capable of.

Another move in August has restored that ceiling.

It may be too much to place on either Daniel Gazdag or Milan Iloski, but such is the nature of their jobs. Without Gazdag, the Union’s all-time leading scorer dealt to Columbus in April, what remained of the Union was still capable of climbing the Eastern Conference and maybe even winning silverware. But there was no world in which the Union without Gazdag were as good as they were with him, however much Bradley Carn

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