America lost a great soccer story, kinda. Herculez Gomez ends his soccer-playing career winning the 2016 MLS Cup with Seattle Sounders crowd surfing among a fan base that he once tweaked on social media. Herc is beloved by the same people he trolled. Now at 34, Gomez continues an emerging broadcast career. He is no longer the hard working winger-forward. Now, he is the bespectacled TV man with ESPN.
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