Cavan Sullivan, at 14 years and 293 days old, stepped onto a Major League Soccer field Wednesday night and, in the 85th minute of the Philadelphia Union’s match against New England, made all sorts of history.
He became the youngest player to ever appear in an MLS game, breaking a record famously held by Freddy Adu (14 years, 306 days) for more than two decades.
Sullivan is also the youngest kid to ever appear in any major U.S. team sports league.
And he is younger than everyone who has ever played in the Big Five European soccer leagues — England’s Premier League, Spain’s La Liga, Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A and France’s Ligue 1.