PORT ORCHARD, WA—Port Orchard Football Club had three minutes of regulation time left and were playing with 10 men when Michael Divano’s 44th career club goal found a way past the Nido Seattle defense back on Sunday night July 27th.
Since then the stature of that goal and the nature of the situation have captured the attention of soccer fans online. The short clips of both Divano goals and the trophy lift were combined into a reel that has gone viral, passing 18,000 total views (as of August 7, 2025) over Facebook (1) (2), Youtube and Instagram. (Original videos by Tyler Brown.)
Not only are the match’s videos popular, but fans continue to buzz about the late-match heroics of being down a man and hearing the regulation clock ticking away. The timing of the winner makes what happened all the more memorable. Playing with 10 men? It only increases the odds against what happened.
AI Reveals The Odds Of A POFC Winner
Supporters have a “We only had 10 men” chant to acknowledge when their team performs well while ‘down a man.’ Port Orchard Football Club defied reasonable chances with Divano’s dramatic late winner.
The situation, when fed into AI, eventually spits out odds that slip as low as 5% for the chances of POFC producing a regulation time winner when down a man and with just 3 minutes until stoppage time.
Customizing those odds with an understanding of previous results and players still on the pitch, Grok decides POFC’s chances were higher than that. See below.
(Grok was not given the memo on Jordan Hadden’s season-long injury or the stellar work in goal in 2025 by Austin Valdez.)
Legends are made out of taking the improbable and making it possible. Whatever the actual odds were against a POFC winner at that point in the match, they are now part of the lore of the eventual conquest.
Three Times – In Three Weeks!
It is very difficult to beat an opponent 3 times in a season. Imagine then trying to do so 3 times – in 3 weeks. Port Orchard FC had competitive battles with Nido Seattle on July 6 (2-0 win), July 15 (wild 4-3 win) and in the final on July 27 (2-1 win with 10 men.)
Some AI models suggest the chances of evenly matched teams ending with a season sweep over three matches are as low as 3.6%.
Port Orchard FC did not care about the odds, only making sure they put in the hard work to keep giving themselves chances.
When Derek Johnson found Michael Divano on the bounce and Divano got an unusual, perhaps unlikely touch to direct the ball into the Nido goal, POFC supporters knew they were seeing a kind of magic right before their very eyes. They knew the odds were against such a moment. But never totally out of the question for champions.