Michael Amir Murillo made his first-team debut for the New York Red Bulls on May 3, 2017, playing the full 90 minutes of a 2-0 road loss to Sporting Kansas City.
He was part of what his head coach, Jesse Marsch, labeled a "makeshift lineup" - not, perhaps, the ideal circumstances for a first appearance for any club. Still, Marsch also identified Murillo as one of the positives to emerge from a game the Red Bulls will mostly try to forget as quickly as possible:
The positive is for me that Amir Murillo played in the game and played quite well which shows that he can handle a game like that.