“I will fight and do my best” | Langoni excited after first training session with Revs

Amidst all the excitement, head coach Caleb Porter was calm – focused on the immediate task of preparing the team for the upcoming trip to CF Montréal, as well as the larger playoff push in the next 11 games the team has been preparing for. In that regard, Porter was perhaps not so much excited as confident: confident about the process that led to Langoni joining the Revs for a record transfer fee, and pleased with the early signs that the club was getting what it paid for, but still cognizant of the fact that a single day of practice does not make an MLS champion – much less a championship run, for that matter.

“We saw what we saw when we watched him, you know?” Porter said of Langoni's first day of practice. “We're not going to see anything different. He's a dynamic player, good one-on-one, very good in transition, a hard-working player, so a good pressing player.”

But Porter warned: “It will take some time before he [international] Many of them are just coming back from the season break and it will take some time until they are fully fit again.”

Langoni himself wanted to help his team as quickly and as well as possible. He even said that while he feels most comfortable in the right wing and second striker positions, “I think I can play wherever the coaching staff needs me.” And as for the record fee Revolution paid for his services, Langoni said he was well aware of the significance of the gesture.

“I'm very grateful to everyone in the front office who supported me,” he said. “I'm very grateful for that. I'm going to take it calmly, with enthusiasm and humility. I'm going to try to fight and do my best.”