Cavalry right-back Michael Harms was born and raised in Calgary.
It’s been a dream of the 18-year-old to one day play a regular-season game with his hometown team, Cavalry FC.
That dream came true last weekend.
When Fraser Aird went down, Harms got a tap on the shoulder and made his debut against York FC.
“It means everything to me,” he said.
“To be able to play for my hometown club, like, I grew up here all of my life and to be able to do that and have it right in my hometown was just amazing.”
Impressive debut
Head coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. was impressed with Harms’s debut.
“York is one of the better sides in the league,” he said.
“I think even they looked at our team, going, ‘They’ve got a bunch of changes here,’ and, ‘Let’s go after him.’
“He took on one of the better attacking players in (Jorge) Guzman and I think he had him in his pocket and he …