To his point, if a senior call-up as a professional athlete isn’t a sign that someone’s made the right choice, then it’s hard to know what is. And although Revs II had a difficult 2024, Gunn felt that the year was a strong one for him personally, and one that he was definitely eager to keep building on.
“Obviously it’s been a difficult season for us results-wise,” he said. “I think it’s been a good year for me, just to get in the pro environment and train with the first team a lot as well, being in Leagues Cup on the bench with them and everything. So, I think in general it was a pretty solid year of experience, even though results didn’t necessarily go the way we wanted them to. But yeah, moving forward, like any player on the second team, hopefully you want to get to the first team, sign a first-team contract, end up playing with the first team. I know the first team goalkeepers are very good and there’s definitely a lot of work I have to do to get to that level. But I trust in myself and trust in my abilities, and so hopefully I can just keep working hard and reach that level. And then we’ll just go from there and see what happens.”
Trusting the process, and trusting himself, is a strategy that has served the Panamanian well thus far. It’s seen Gunn win himself two well-deserved international call-ups, and it could very well earn him a spot in MLS before long. Towering strikers and zooming wingers – and, if he gets the time for a pickup game, perhaps the odd power forward – have all been put on notice.
