The Englishman routinely tore through defences in North America after a humdrum career in Europe. But his Red Bulls career was far from a joke
Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robbie Keane, Wayne Rooney, David Villa … they all left their mark on Major League Soccer, but none quite as profound (at least statistically) as Bradley Wright-Phillips. That’s right, the same Wright-Phillips who failed to make the grade at
Manchester City before becoming a lower-league journeyman at Southampton, Plymouth Argyle, Charlton Athletic and Brentford. The same Wright-Phillips who was best known in
England for being the brother of Shaun.
They see Bradley in a rather different light in the United States. They see him as a two-time MLS Golden Boot winner, a legend who scored 126 goals in 240 appearances over six years, the league’s all-time leading European goalscorer and in the words of the
New York Red Bulls sporting director Denis Hamlett, “one of the best forwards in MLS history.”