FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – At some point when Teal Bunbury was a kid playing youth soccer in the suburbs of Minneapolis – dreams of a professional career just a glint in his eye – a coach told him the Golden Rule of Sports, the lesson we all learned as youngsters: play to the whistle.
That lesson served Bunbury well on Saturday night at Gillette Stadium, where his heads-up play ultimately bagged him the only goal of the game in a massive 1-0 win for the New England Revolution over league-leading Sporting Kansas City.
The decisive sequence unfolded in the 44th minute.