In the summer of 2015, Gavin Wilkinson sat in a hotel lobby in Buenos Aires, sipping coffee as he listened to Lucas Melano talk energetically about the prospect of joining the Portland Timbers.

It was the first time that the Timbers general manager had met the young Argentine striker face-to-face, though he had seen Melano play in person and on film dozens of times over the last two years.

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