The pass that will be remembered is the back heel, the ball that came off the foot of Sporting Kansas City winger Daniel Salloi to assist a game-winning goal in Chicago. In the days afterward, Salloi says he was asked about it several times, the sequence considered the decisive moment in Sporting KC’s first victory of 2018.
But inside the locker room, it was an earlier sequence that loomed larger, particularly among the team’s coaches. It also came from Salloi.
In the opening half, Salloi got behind the Chicago defense, chased a ball to the end line and dished a pass across the center of the penalty area.