Credit volleyball for Nick Hagglund’s ability to leap high. Or maybe his raw athleticism.
But send a high ball his way and the 25-year-old Toronto FC defender knows what to do with his head.
Hagglund demonstrated that again last week when, thrown up front as an emergency attacker with time running out, he scored twice on headers to complete an unlikely 4-4 comeback tie with D.C. United.
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Hagglund’s only other two regular-season goals came against Portland in September 2014, again via his noggin. Hagglund’s headers pulled TFC even at 2-2 that day before Michael Bradley won it with an 89th-minute free kick.