When Kendall Waston scored FC Cincinnati’s first MLS home goal, many fans might have chalked up his celebration to standard-issue post-scoring joy; the type you’re likely to see countless times in the course of watching soccer. Still, the towering center back’s actions after his header were unique enough to draw comments.



After Waston slid to the ground and kicked his legs around while spinning in circles on his side, Stu Holden on the FOX Sports 1 broadcast compared it to a silly-looking routine done by Homer Simpson decades ago. Even Waston himself admitted after the game that the celebration probably looked pretty funny.



Waston did not say it publicly at the time, but there was more to the moment than that. Waston and his wife, Priscila Robles Waston, say it was the celebration of a gift from God, a reminder that He will never leave them.



It was a celebration of the fact that his four-year-old son Keysaack was walking again, when less...