Travis Worra’s growth as D.C. United’s goalkeeper came to the forefront last Saturday in the dying moments on a rain-glossed field outside of Chicago.
The MLS match was level in stoppage time when the Fire unleashed a swift counterattack. The ball was played behind the defense and into the path of Joey Calistri hurtling into the penalty area.
Had Worra confronted such a crisis weeks earlier — when he was an unproven, minimum-salary, third-stringer from the University of New Hampshire who’d been thrust into the lineup because of injuries to United’s two time-tested keepers — “I may not get to that ball before Calistri does.