Usain Bolt debuted for his Australian professional soccer team, coming on in the 72nd minute of a preseason exhibition game against an amateur team on Friday night.
Bolt, displacing Richard Dent as the most famous No. 95 in sports history and wearing black gloves, jogged onto the field for the Central Coast Mariners of Australia’s top division amid pyrotechnics and a light show and the club leading 6-1.
Neither team scored with Bolt on the field, watched by an announced attendance of 9,958 for last season’s last-place club.
“It was what I expected,” Bolt said in a TV interview, according to the club.