Like most things, acclimatizing comes down to personal choice. The surroundings and the company are, well, kinda the point, but it’s ultimately up to yourself how you try to fit in around them all.

Take a first training session with a new team, which just so happens to be in the most wind-buffeted, barenaked-to-the-elements patch of grass in Toronto. Even the temporary and precarious-looking stands of Rogers Stadium next door offered little protection at Toronto FC’s training base Tuesday lunchtime. Granted, the playing surface held up impressively well under the early November snow dump, but otherwise it was an inhospitable welcome for the new faces of Jesse Marsch’s Canadian soccer team.

Just 213 days out from the World Cup, the head coach found room to include three newcomers am

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