When Alhaji Kamara stepped onto the field on a rainy night in Kansas City, D.C. United fans barely had enough time to wonder what he might accomplish in his club debut before he scored the game-winning goal. It took only 33 seconds for Kamara to do it, which set an MLS record for the fastest goal scored by a player making his league debut, but he wouldn’t score again over the remaining 172.5 minutes he played in 2016.
Arriving in D.C. from IFK Norrköping in the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s top tier, Kamara brought with him a goal scoring record of 16 goals in 40 games for his previous club.