Former Real Salt Lake defender Phanuel Kavita sat staring at the television as images of Puerto Rico flitted across the screen. He rattled off a string to texts to his teammates. “How is it?” he typed over and over again. At 2 a.m. the response came in from one: “Yep, no power.” Then from another: “It begins.” Kavita, a product of the RSL academy who grew up in Utah, was one of just four Puerto Rico FC players who evacuated the territory ahead of Hurricane Maria, he said. He...
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