It was an important milestone in what he hopes will be a long, successful career, but Gianluca Busio’s first professional goal was far from pretty.
In fact, he scuffed his 94th minute tap-in in Sporting KC’s 4-1 win at the Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday. Not that the 16-year-old attacking midfielder was worried about that after the fact.
“When the ball was coming across, I was thinking that this could be it,” Busio told MLSsoccer.com over the phone on Thursday. “Everything was going through my head; all the happiness, all my family.