The 2020 preseason is underway for Atlanta United without some of the club’s pivotal members from their two-year, trophy-filled run. The rondo sessions at the club’s training facility feature unfamiliar faces, but with the same pep and energy that the start of a new season typically brings.



After a 2019 season ripe with cultural change, inconsistent play and tactical fiddling, Atlanta United begins the 2020 preseason hoping to build off their late-season run of form that ended with a berth in the Eastern Conference championship. Now, Atlanta United enters the preseason with a focus on continuity, with manager Frank de Boer able to fine-tune defensive positioning and attacking patterns implemented last season.



“There’s not going to be that transition period,” midfielder Jeff Larentowicz told reporters on Tuesday. “It was pretty clear what we were doing at the end of the year. From maybe July on we were extremely...