CHICAGO – The 2017 Special Olympics Unified Sports All-Star match ended with late drama on Tuesday at Toyota Park.
Goals from a pair of Seattle Sounders players had helped the Western Conference team come back from a halftime deficit. But then, in the final 65 seconds of the match, New York City FC’s Umar Muftau scored his second goal of the game, saving a 2-2 draw for the Eastern Conference side.
“It was exciting,” Minnesota United forward Mikhail Pearthree said. “But I wish our team could have got ahead by one.”
Chicago Fire players Patrick Doody and Drew Conner coached the Eastern Conference team, while their teammates Jonathan Campbell and Stefan Cleveland coached the Western Conference team.