Ask FC Cincinnati striker Kevin Denkey what he’s like and he’ll inform you he’s nothing particular.
“I’m a easy man who loves soccer, who likes to win and who loves to attain targets,” he told Cincy fans after joining the club last November, by way of mls.com’s Carter Chapley.
Truthful sufficient. However Denkey—Main League Soccer’s report signing on the time of his arrival with three years of high European soccer league expertise—is greater than he lets on. He’s a chess champion who skilled for years below a Grandmaster. He’s a health fanatic with a made-to-measure house gymnasium and a strict vegan way of life. He’s multilingual, with 4 languages below his belt and one other two in progress. And immediately, simply 10 video games into his MLS profession, he’s probably the most talked-about striker in the USA.
Denkey capped off his opening run of MLS video games in opposition to Sporting Kansas Metropolis this weekend with a bravura two-goal efficiency. His first strike was a well-poached rebound; his second, a heart-stopping bicycle kick into the highest nook. Objective of the week. Objective of the season. Objective of the last decade, even. The imaginative and prescient, timing, technique, physicality and bravado Denkey displayed whereas scoring it merely beggar perception.
