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Chris Wondolowski celebrating this goal from the supporters section is the MLS moment of 2019

More Wondo please

MLS: Philadelphia Union at San Jose Earthquakes Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports

Behold the leading American goal-scorer in MLS (...probably the world at this point also?) having the time of his life watching the San Jose Earthquakes score a goal:

Wondo is the leading goal scorer in MLS history and in a lot of ways he epitomizes one of the unsung aspects that make the league compelling - he’s a DII college guy who didn’t get starts until he was in his mid 20s and has fired of 10 straight seasons of 10+ goals. It would be like if the guy who held the most important record in the league he played in sat on the bench through half of the prime of his career.

Not only that, but Wondo does just about everything right as a striker - he’s got great movement off the ball, he can read where to be on the field to get ready to poach a goal, and he turns up in unexpected places to make defenses and keepers look really bad. The passion and love that he has for his team isn’t something that isn’t seen much in the league, the game of soccer, or modern sports in general. Say what you want about him (because you are very original for saying what you want about him), but he turned getting a red card suspension into the best moment of the MLS season and he managed to do it without even being on the field.

All this begs a question: when will America produce another Chris Wondolowski?