It lasted just a few minutes, accounting for just a fraction of John McCarthy’s seven-year professional career, but his performance in goal in last November’s MLS Cup final has been life-changing.
LAFC opens the season against the Galaxy and has its sights set on doing something that hasn’t been in more than a decade: repeating as MLS champion.
On this day, McCarthy, who hadn’t stopped a penalty try in seven MLS seasons, did not let a shot get by him and LAFC converted three of its four shots to win the title.
“I don’t think you can look past this weekend,” he said. “The final is in December. That’s our goal. But once you start thinking that’s where you want to be and that’s all you care about, you’re going to get caught up in missing the opportunity that’s just ahead of you.”Yet as much as McCarthy struggles to focus on the present, he can’t forget the recent past — mostly because people won’t let him.
“A lot of my close friends were cheering for Philly. That’s who I would have cheered for any other day besides that day,” McCarthy said of the MLS Cup final. “So there’s no hate, no bad blood.”Saturday’s MLS opener between the Galaxy and LAFC at the Rose Bowl has been postponed because of inclement weather and will be played July 4.
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