{"id":622751,"date":"2026-04-23T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622751\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:49:08","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime-goalkeeper-luka-gavran-scores-unbelievable-goal-for-toronto-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622751\/","title":{"rendered":"Once in a lifetime! Goalkeeper Luka Gavran scores unbelievable goal for Toronto FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the match, Gavran could barely process that he had just lived every goalkeeper&#8217;s dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t even remember what happened!&#8221; Gavran told the MLS 360 studio crew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there was 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, &#8216;OK, recycle my run&#8217;, and the rest was [history]&#8230; I used to be a No. 9, you know!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gavran is just the third goalkeeper in league history to score a goal, and the first since William Hesmer did so for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/columbus-crew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Crew<\/a> against Toronto on October 16, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the match, Gavran could barely process that he had just lived every goalkeeper&#8217;s dream. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,233572,175222,59211,24855,82,16526,233573],"class_list":["post-622751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-did-you-see-it","tag-luka-gavran","tag-match-reaction","tag-sendtonews","tag-sports","tag-toronto-fc","tag-torvsphi-04-22-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622751","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=622751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}