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When Josef Martinez set the Major League Soccer scoring record last season with 31 goals, commentators described the feat with words like “remarkable” and “historic.”
And why not? After all, the previous record of 27 had stood since Roy Lassiter set it in 1996. It was tied by Chris Wondolowski in 2012 and Bradley Wright-Phillips in 2014, but never bettered until Martinez.
But on Sunday, just a season later, Carlos Vela of Los Angeles F.C. tied Martinez’s mark, and he has one game to break it, next Sunday at home against the Colorado Rapids.