Last Saturday was a banner day for Sporting KC striker Daniel Salloi. Not only did he score his second MLS goal of the year with an incredible solo effort, but he also had the opportunity to play against a countryman that he has admired for so many years.
According to Peter Hirdt at the Elias Sports Bureau, only four players born in Hungary have played a game in Major League Soccer: Istvan Urbanyi (1997), Zoltan Hercegfalvi (2009–10), Krisztian Nemeth (2015) and Salloi (2016–17). That does not include Chicago Fire forward Nemanja Nikolic, who was born in the country formerly known as Yugoslavia but represents the Magyars on the international scene due to the fact that his mother was born in Hungary.