The day after Toronto FC became champions. Allow me to wrap up this weekend with the sharing of the second goal. It was the. 94th minute, the fans were already celebrating and Seba Giovinco and Armando Cooper saw the opportunity to not just run down the clock but to finish Seattle off. And in the end it was Victor Vazquez who got the goal. The player who brought an extra touch of class to the team this season, the player who changed matches with so many a simple, yet incredibly intelligent, pass scored a goal that he knew very little about. A lucky rebound, a fumble. But it in went and Victor Vazquez had his name on the scoresheet on Toronto's historic night.
Apart from the goal I love the explosion of joy from the whole of the team, especially the one player who did a big skip, horse gallop leap as he ran over. What a celebration. As Michael Bradley said afterwards the players have wanted this since around 11pm on December 10th last year, just after they had lost to Seattle on penalties. Redemption was well and truly complete. And amongst all the craziness what does Vazquez do: he calmly takes his shirt off. Even in celebration he is not frantic.
I chose the Spanish commentary version of the goal because, you know, it sounds just so much more exciting.
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