This is the first Wednesday Wonders to be published on July 31 in Canadian Premier League history! Alright, that's far from the most thrilling stat you'll read today, or any day. But if you're part of my extremely knowledgeable and good-looking Twitter following, you'll know that I'm always on the lookout for CPL firsts. And hoo boy, did we ever add to that list this week! What will be the next big "first in CPL history"? In the past week, we've seen the first win by a CPL club over MLS opposition (Cavalry FC getting past the Vancouver Whitecaps in Canadian Championship play) as well as the first legit blow-out in CPL league play (York9 FC's 6-2 win over HFX Wanderers), which featured the first-ever hat trick, courtesy of Rodrigo Gattas. And it was only two weeks ago that we saw Tristan Borges connect for the first "Olimpico" goal in league history. So, now that a lot of the really big "firsts" have already been covered, I wonder when we'll starting seeing things like:
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- The first player to score a goal while sitting on a yellow card who forgets he's on a yellow, celebrates by removing his shirt and subsequently gets sent off in CPL history
- The first bicycle-kick goal in CPL history
- The first bicycle-kick own goal in CPL history
- The first player to mumble while calling the coin toss, creating confusion for the referee and a big hubbub of controversy in CPL history
- The first player to instinctively make the VAR hand signal to argue a call before remembering the league doesn't use video review in CPL history
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