Toronto FC new boy Victor Vazquez was once held in the same regard as Lionel Messi

The 30-year-old was part of Barcelona’s famous 1987-born youth team with Messi, Cesc Fabregas and Gerard Pique. Football coaches, players, fans and writers have a habit of apotheosizing the player that did not quite make it, the young prodigy whose career was...

By Oliver Platt