As some of you may have heard, Atlanta United’s Josef Martinez set the single-season MLS scoring record against Orlando City on Friday night.
Josef broke a record that the Tampa Bay Mutiny’s Roy Lassiter first set at 27, way back in Major League Soccer’s inaugural 1996 season. Since that time, Chris Wondolowski and Bradley Wright-Phillips had both tied it, but Josef made the record his daddy, with eight games left in the regular season. Based on his current scoring rate of just over one goal a game, he’s on pace to score a mind-boggling 37 for the year.