LAFC’s backup goalkeeper denies his hometown team on penalty kicks and helps secure a championship.
So, who bet on John McCarthy, backup goalkeeper, to be MLS Cup MVP? If you did – if you’d found someone to take that action – that would be a whopper of a winning ticket.
“For 10 minutes or 15, it was like a Halloween movie,” Carlos Vela said. “And then we finish with a Hollywood movie. It’s like dreaming things, like something you can’t imagine can happen, and it happened.” Yet he was considered a penalty specialist during four seasons with Philadelphia and two with Inter Miami. And there was speculation as Saturday’s game proceeded, with his knowledge of many of the Union’s shooters, that LAFC coach Steve Cherundolo might switch to McCarthy if it came down to a shootout.
So as the teams changed ends of the pitch midway through extra time Saturday, McCarthy said, “I leaned over and I said, ‘Am I going in?’ “I’m absolutely devastated for him because it seems like it’s a pretty serious injury and he’s going to miss the World Cup . I don’t know the extent of it, but if you come out of a game in that situation, you’re not coming out for a Band-Aid.”
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