When Orlando City captain Luis Nani bobbed and weaved through the Cincinnati defense to score earlier this month, Lions fan Jake Ternent couldn’t tear his eyes away from the screen.
The game kicked off just before 1 a.m. in County Durham, England, but Ternent didn’t care about any lack of sleep. Watching the Lions play is something he doesn’t take for granted — especially since, for the last few years, seeing his favorite players was nearly impossible.
Ternent was diagnosed with leber congenital amaurosis as a child, a rare condition caused by a pair of faulty copies of the RPE65 gene.