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<\/p>\nAfter a cross went through the box, Toronto midfielder Alfonso Coello lassoed the ball and placed a perfect pass back into the box at the six-foot-six Gavran, who headed it home for a heroic tying goal in the sixth minute of injury time. <\/p>\n
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The tally saw the game end in a 3-3 draw. \u2028<\/p>\n
\u201cI know people are saying, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re lying.\u2019 But a win is a win. I would rather win 100 per cent,\u201d Gavran said of the feat.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Canadian \u2018keeper thinks the last time he scored was when he was 14. He was a striker back then.\u2028<\/p>\n
With the outing against the Union (1-6-2) in injury time, he began looking at the bench. <\/p>\n
Toronto head coach Robin Fraser never has a plan for this situation. He\u2019s seen the goalkeeper move forward \u201cumpteen\u201d times, and never has he seen a \u2018keeper score.\u2028<\/p>\n
Gavran first saw backup netminder Willie Yarbrough waving him up. Then goalkeeper coach Simon Eaddy joined. So Gavran raced into the fray.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first ball came in, and it was like, \u2018OK, he\u2019s gonna pull it there,\u2019\u201d Gavran said. \u201cThen the ball came back out to Alonso, and it was just, \u2018OK, get back in the box.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m the biggest target there, so I just jumped, and the ball went kind of off my head, off my shoulder, but it went in. That\u2019s all that matters.\u201d \u2028<\/p>\n
Fraser told his \u2018keeper that he has one more goal to tie the two Fraser scored as a top defender is his 17-year career.\u2028<\/p>\n
For a player who scored his first goal in more than a decade, Gavran performed a memorable no-flaw two-knee slide.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do a lot of (goal celebrations) in training, for a joke,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you score a nice goal, we always celebrate stuff. So I would always knee slide. I\u2019m like, \u2018This is a perfect moment to knee slide.\u2019 I would have taken my jersey off, but my gloves are on, so it would have been awkward.\u201d \u2028<\/p>\n
Gavran was also pleased to see his friend and longtime teammate, Kobe Franklin, of East York, Ont., score for the second game in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a game we\u2019re probably going to talk about the rest of our lives,\u201d Gavran said.\u2028<\/p>\n
The draw extended Toronto\u2019s unbeaten streak to seven matches (3-0-4) after the club dropped its first two outings of the season. Toronto also has not been defeated at home in its last 13 matches (4-0-9) dating back to June 25.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m greyer now than three hours ago,\u201d Fraser said.\u2028<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve talked so much about this team maturing and becoming a team because we have good players. That\u2019s one thing to have good players. It\u2019s another thing to have those good players meld and become a team, and I feel like we are getting closer and closer to that every week.\u201d<\/p>\n
UP NEXT<\/p>\n
TFC continue its 10-game homestand against Atlanta United on Saturday. The 10-week stint at BMO Field includes a Canada Championship match against Atl\u00e9tico Ottawa on May 5.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n
Tim Wharnsby, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a cross went through the box, Toronto midfielder Alfonso Coello lassoed the ball and placed a perfect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,3302],"class_list":["post-622863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622863","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=622863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}