{"id":613203,"date":"2026-04-18T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613203\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:57:13","slug":"kobe-franklins-1st-goal-for-toronto-fc-a-proud-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Franklin&#8217;s 1st goal for Toronto FC &#8216;a proud moment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/tag\/feature\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">It took 69 MLS appearances, but the young fullback finally scored his first goal for his hometown club.<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/author\/john-molinaro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/FvUog8Oe_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"John Molinaro\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TFCvs.ATX_Franklin-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kobe Franklin's 1st goal for Toronto FC 'a proud moment'\"\/><br \/>\n            TFC&#8217;s Kobe Franklin. (Photo by Lucas Kschischang\/Toronto FC)<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Down 3-2 late in the game against Austin FC on Saturday afternoon, Toronto FC received an equalizer from the unlikeliest of sources in Kobe Franklin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young fullback scored from close range in the 88th minute to complete a comeback for TFC who earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfcrepublic.ca\/april-18-toronto-fc-austin-fc\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 3-3 draw<\/a> in a wild game at BMO Field to extend their unbeaten run to six games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a first career goal in 69 MLS appearances (39 starts) for Franklin, a 22-year-old Toronto native and a graduate of the TFC youth academy, since making his debut for his hometown club in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a proud moment for me and my family; something I&#8217;ve been working towards for a long time, obviously. Very exciting to get it as an equalizer, but it would&#8217;ve been a bit sweeter if it was the winner. So, we just [have] to keep working from behind the scenes and hopefully more goals will come,\u201d Franklin told reporters after the game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#b00707\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feature It took 69 MLS appearances, but the young fullback finally scored his first goal for his hometown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-613203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}