FC Dallas coach Luchi Gonzalez still is not accustomed to it.



He has an office. His own office. He has a staff. Multiple staffs, really. He’s got one team to manage. Just one team. And no parents to deal with.



“Or, a few parents,” Gonzalez clarified with a laugh over breakfast in Raleigh at the MLS college showcase earlier this month. “Because some guys are young.”



After spending years as an academy director juggling multiple teams, boatloads of parents and rarely coaching the same players for more than one year, Gonzalez is still relishing the changes that came with his promotion from academy director to first-team head coach last season. He can direct the majority of his focus to a singular goal now: winning MLS Cup. He’s pursuing that goal by taking the foundation built by his mentor, Oscar Pareja, and building it to a higher level.



“We need to change the history of the club,” Gonzalez...