CHESTER — Though there was a moment or two where the doubt crept in for Jeremy Rafanello, he can see now with the relative sagacity of a 25-year-old.

It could crop up while the midfielder watched yet another game from the bench in a seven-month stint with Danish club Helsingor without getting into a competitive match.

It could appear while sharing a house with two fellow Americans and two Canadians just across the Oresund strait from Sweden.

It certainly crested when he and his dad hopped in the car to drive to an open tryout for USL Championship squad Indy Eleven in January 2020, with nothing more guaranteed the 19-year-old who should’ve been a sophomore at Penn State than a chance to show his wares.

From the vantage point of his fourth season with the Philadelphia Union, though, it a

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