Write the script for a momentous game — like Toronto FC’s return to a revamped BMO Field after eight matches on the road — and it calls for a momentous goal.

That’s what Tsubasa Endoh delivered here Saturday night in the Reds’ 1-0 home opener win over FC Dallas, only the second time the Reds have beaten the Hoops in Major League Soccer.

The 22-year-old Japanese forward, who was nearly unknown when the Reds drafted him seventh overall in January, scored his first professional goal in the 28th minute with a tidy touch past Dallas goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez from the six-yard line.

“To score a first goal the way he did, it was very well taken so I’m very happy for him. He deserves it,” said attacking partner Jozy Altidore, who still fondly remembers his first professional goal against Columbus Crew as one of the best days of his career.

Endoh’s was the only goal in a game before a sell-out crowd that begged for more. Toronto couldn’t find the back of the net and Dallas hardly managed a handful of chances in front of it.

Sebastian Giovinco, who was presented with last year’s Golden Boot award prior to the match by Reds president Bill Manning and general manager Tim Bezbatchenko, was the conjurer of Toronto’s best chances in the game’s opening quarter.

But it would take the Atomic Ant dropping back to playmaker to crack the Texas side’s defence.

After receiving a ball from Endoh on the left side, Giovinco drove a cross into the six-yard box, where both Endoh and fellow forward Jozy Altidore waited.

Toronto will hope it was a breakthrough moment for Endoh, was has found himself in good positions throughout his four starts with the club this season but was beginning to draw murmurs about his ability to convert.

“It feels great,” Endoh said. “I just can’t be satisfied with this goal. The season is so long, so I just have to keep going.”

Endoh said he hopes his family back in Japan was able to catch the goal. “I’m pretty sure they’ve been following Twitter, Facebook, Instagram stuff so they know that I had a goal.”

Vanney has long praised the league newcomer for his endless engine. With Giovinco and Altidore requiring so much attention from Dallas’ backline, the coach saw a chance for Endoh to run into unmarked spaces.

And Vanney was proven right.

“(Endoh) took it well and I was very happy for him. He put in a lot of good work today.”

The Reds cruised through latter part of the first half after Endoh’s goal, going into the break looking comfortable.

The introduced of Fabian Castillo, who scored two goals against Toronto when these sides met in Dallas last year, coupled with the visitor’s desperate attempts to equalize caused some friction for the home team in the second half.

The dynamic attack the Reds were monitoring finally sprang to life.

It was goalkeeper Clint Irwin, whose night was relatively quiet but for the boisterous fans around him, who faced the toughest test from that change. He stopped Castillo in the 66th minute with a left footed save, after the forward broke through alone at the top of the 18-yard box.

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The team made it difficult for themselves — Vanney believes the Reds were a couple touches off a 3-0 or 4-0 victory — but the coach was proud of how his team finished it off.

“It’s an important win for us. We did it again in a fashion where I just don’t think that you can say, under my time and probably many times before, we wouldn’t have held on and won that game like that.”

Toronto FC next hosts the Vancouver Whitecaps next Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

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