Montreal Impact lose captain Jukka Raitala for eight to 12 weeks
MONTREAL — Injuries are piling up for Montreal, and that’s posing a serious challenge for first-year coach Thierry Henry ahead of the Impact’s Major League Soccer season opener.
The Impact begin MLS play on Saturday afternoon against the visiting New England Revolution without four of their regular starters: captain Jukka Raitala, Rudy Camacho, Orji Okwonkwo and Lassi Lappalainen.
Henry felt his roster already needed beefing up on the first day of training camp, before those players were injured.
“It would be better if everyone was healthy, if we had a full team,” Henry said before practice on Friday. “But that’s the unpredictability of sport and we need to adapt.