Alex Bono

Alexander Nicholas Bono (born April 25, 1994) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Toronto FC.

Club Career

Toronto FC

On January 15, 2015, Bono was selected 6th overall by Toronto FC in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft. He was considered to be the highest prospective goalkeeper in the draft class.

Bono was loaned to Toronto FC II on March 20, 2015. He made his debut against the Charleston Battery on March 21.

Due to an injury to regular starter Clint Irwin in July 2016, Bono was selected to be the number one keeper for the first team by manager Greg Vanney; he went on to make 16 MLS appearances for the club that year, and also started in the second leg of the 2016 Canadian Championship final against Vancouver Whitecaps on June 29, which Toronto won on away goals, but Irwin later regained the starting spot for the remainder of the regular season and the Playoffs, as Toronto went on to reach the 2016 MLS Cup Final, only to be defeated at home by the Seattle Sounders 5–4 on penalties, following a 0–0 draw after extra time.

The following season, however, after another injury to Irwin in the team's home opener in the spring, Bono was once again promoted to the starting line-up, and subsequently cemented his place as the team's outright first-choice shot-stopper by September 2017, also establishing himself as one of the best goalkeepers in the league: he broke the club's record for most clean sheets by a goalkeeper in a single season (10), and overall he kept the second highest number of clean sheets in the league season behind Stefan Frei, and won more games than any other MLS goalkeeper that season (19), while he also surpassed Frei's mark for most career MLS wins by a Toronto FC goalkeeper; furthermore, he produced 72 saves and had a 69.

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