“I had like... ten shots at least. So I need to score them.”
A brief pause.
“I could have had a hat trick.”
That's how Brenden Aaronson responds when I ask him about what stood out to him about his play when Bethlehem Steel walloped Atlanta United II 4-1 last Sunday. I had already asked Aaronson about the goal he scored (“I kind of readjusted my body and put it in with my left foot”) and the one he set up (“Chambo [Steel captain James Chamberlain] and I have a pretty good connection”) so I'm looking for something small that I might have missed but that the 17-year old, who was named to the USL Team of the Week, noticed.