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As the Union's offense struggles, Anthony Fontana waits to provide a spark

Anthony Fontana hasn’t played 90 total minutes of soccer in his professional career, never mind one full game.

Yet how is it that the Union’s only win this year was also Fontana’s only start? Does that mean something?

It shouldn’t, given how little evidence there is to work with. That one start was the Union’s season opener, in which Fontana played 65 minutes. He played 13 minutes in the game after that, and just eight in the next one.

But the 18-year-old Newark, Del., native did enough in that limited time to show that he deserved more.