On Saturday night, following his team’s 2-0 loss to Orlando City — a fifth winless match to start the 2024 season — Sebastián Driussi stepped up to the press conference mic and addressed some of his team’s current woes.
Driussi was given the captain’s armband last season, which like many elements of Austin FC fandom since the highs of reaching the Western Conference Finals in 2022, has been met with some scrutiny and debate over whether it’s to the team’s benefit.
There’s a general sentiment, based in part on things that Austin FC head coach Josh Wolff has said, that Driussi is more of a lead-by-example player than a vocal leader, and he doesn’t address media queries with the same gusto that Diego Fagundez did in the 2021 season, in those moments where fans want to hear from a player that the players really do care.
Building on our quotes from him on Sunday, here’s more of what Driussi said to possibly help put this loss in context and then to look ahead to Saturday’s crucial match against FC Dallas—and the first Copa Tejas match of 2024 (with the format changed from last year to factor in all regular-season matches despite the imbalanced home/away schedule).
(Answers are, as you’ve come to expect by now, translated from the original Spanish.)
