Like everyone else, Steve Cherundolo could barely stomach Game 7 of the World Series.

Unfolding the night prior to his team’s second MLS Cup playoff contest, the Los Angeles Football Club head coach was in Austin, Texas, where a few players and staff, including general manager John Thorrington, experienced the unbelievable World Series finale between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.

“That was not for fainthearted people,” Cherundolo said. “That was amazing. That was crazy. I think the Dodgers had won it and lost it twice in a matter of a half hour. So that was wild.”

As the Dodgers’ clincher grew later and crazier, the 46-year-old American and a member of the US Soccer Hall of Fame, adjourned to his room, where he also kept tabs on a couple of MLS Western Conference playoff games.

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