Chris Wondolowski is the greatest player the San Jose Earthquakes have ever produced. In 2019, he became the all-time leading goal scorer in Major League Soccer. This is the story about his improbable rise from a broke reserve-team player in his mid-20s that would go on to uplift an entire soccer region, to the highest stage of all—the World Cup—and how he nearly scored the most important goal in USMNT history.