Another key objective will be to improve data collection at the federation, so it is at least on a par with the top countries in the world. Real Salt Lake’s equalizer — a Yura Movsisyan penalty after Jared Watts’ handball — was the price for such profligacy. Rooney brought new employment requirements to his fellow owners and got the measure passed. He called his son, Jim, that night and said he thought Obama was “more than just a good politician”.