When Gian Neglia took over as sporting director of the Las Vegas Lights in February, it was a team in name only.
That’s not a figure of speech but a literal description of the situation Neglia inherited. The Lights, who played in the second-tier USL Championship, had no coach, no players and no employees on the soccer side when he joined the team less than two weeks before training camp was scheduled to start.
“We didn’t know where we were going to have training camp. So we needed to find a place, we needed to set up games,” Neglia said.