Seventh. Eighth. Tenth. Eleventh. Eleventh.



What may at first seem like a random list of ordinal numbers might be at least somewhat recognizable to Orlando City supporters: It’s the club’s final position in the Eastern Conference standings from all five of its seasons in Major League Soccer. Since entering the league as an expansion team in 2015, Orlando has never finished in the top half of the East and is yet to make the playoffs.



The picture hasn’t looked much rosier for the squad’s managers. Adrian Heath made the leap from USL with the team was fired midway through his second MLS season. Jason Kreis was then hired to take over for Heath and coached the remainder of the 2016 season, all of 2017 and part of 2018 before being let go midseason. James O’Connor was brought in to replace Kreis in July of 2018 and held the position for just over 15 months before losing his job this past October, just one day after Orlando’s...