Getting to sign a professional contract is the dream of any child as they grow up. Everyone lays in bed dreaming and recreating a tension filled moment and then breaking through to be the hero. As we kick off our 2019 Philadelphia Union Moments of the Year, we begin with 15-year-old Gabriel Planas-Borgstrom.
A passionate sports fan for his City of Brotherly Love squads, Gabe has those same dreams but they were almost ended with a diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma in September 2018. After coming down with pneumonia at the end of August, a follow-up visit and a X-ray revealed the mass in his chest and treatment immediately began.