{"id":280510,"date":"2026-09-06T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280510\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:38:08","slug":"cavan-sullivan-makes-mls-history-pays-tribute-to-lebron-james-in-philadelphia-unions-victory-over-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280510\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan makes MLS history, pays tribute to LeBron James in Philadelphia Union&#8217;s victory over Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cavan Sullivan scored in a third straight match to become the first teenager with a goal contribution in five straight and the Philadelphia Union beat CF Montreal 2-0 on Saturday night to extend their unbeaten streak to eight.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2096407917113041374?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sullivan added<\/a> an insurance goal \u2014 unassisted in the 75th minute for his fourth netter of the campaign. The goal was Sullivan&#8217;s 11th goal contribution of the year (four goals and seven assists), and helped the teen eclipse the mark set by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/cavan-sullivan-channels-lebron-james-record-setting-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Freddy Adu<\/a> in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan celebrated the goal by paying tribute to new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/lebron-james-jersey-sales-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76er LeBron James<\/a> by mimicking his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2096407917113041374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2096407917113041374%7Ctwgr%5E41f3301e91657b16ec94cf89ad39587f9a65ec20%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlssoccer.com%2Fnews%2Fcavan-sullivan-channels-lebron-james-record-setting-performance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">infamous chalk toss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team found the net until Danley Jean <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2096403191013199971?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jacques scored<\/a> for the third time \u2014 unassisted in the 57th minute to give Philadelphia (7-10-6) the lead. The midfielder matched his career high set last season in 31 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Andre <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2096405866668781647?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Blake had a save<\/a> on a penalty kick by Prince Owusu to keep it 1-0 in the 68th minute. Blake made two saves to earn his fourth clean sheet this season and his 24th in 288 career starts with the Union.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9bastian Breza saved six shots for Montreal (5-12-6). He had allowed one goal in each of his four starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Union improve to 4-3-4 at home, while Montreal falls to 2-9-1 on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Montreal: Hosts Charlotte FC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia: Hosts FC Cincinnati on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cavan Sullivan scored in a third straight match to become the first teenager with a goal contribution in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11468,69,71,70,10227,11868,726],"class_list":["post-280510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}