After the match, Gavran could barely process that he had just lived every goalkeeper’s dream.
“I can’t even remember what happened,” Gavran told the MLS 360 studio crew.
“I think there were 10 seconds left. I looked to the bench, and everyone was waving me down to go, so I was like, you know what? And then here, I thought [the referee] was gonna blow [the whistle]. I was like, ‘OK, recycle my run’, and the rest was [history]… I used to be a No. 9, you know!”
Gavran is just the third goalkeeper in MLS history to score a goal, and the first since William Hesmer did so for the Columbus Crew against Toronto on Oct. 16, 2010.