<table> </table> New England Revolution forward Taylor Twellman has scored goals all around the world.</p><p>He&#8217;s played professionally in Germany, he&#8217;s represented the U.S. national team in 30 international matches and is on the threshold of becoming the fifth player in MLS history to score 100 goals.</p><p>But the first goal anyone remembers Twellman scoring was as a 4-year-old during halftime of a Comets game at Kemper Arena.</p><p>&#8220;He scored a goal for the other team, and he celebrated,&#8221; laughed Twellman&#8217;s dad, Tim, a standout with the Comets during 1983-86.</p><p>Taylor, 28, doesn&#8217;t recall the details of that goal, but he knows it happened.</p><p>&#8220;Unfortunately, that was probably my best goal &#8230; it&#8217;s the best one because it&#8217;s the one everyone kind of remembers,&#8221; said Twellman, who will return to Kansas City on Saturday night when the Revolution faces the Wizards at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.</p><p>Twellman, whose early touches of a soccer ball were as a 3-year-old tyke in Johnson County, remembers watching his dad play at Kemper during the halcyon days of indoor soccer in Kansas City. The family moved to St. Louis in 1986 after Tim retired from soccer, and Taylor eventually emerged as one of the most prolific American-born scorers in history.</p><p>With 98 career goals, Twellman is certain to become MLS&#8217; youngest 100-goal scorer. He&#8217;s fourth in game-winning goals (28), sixth in multiple-goal games (15) and is tied for sixth on the MLS career postseason scoring list with 10 goals.</p><p>While Tim Twellman was a defender with the Comets and during his career with the Minnesota Kicks and Chicago Sting of the old North American Soccer League, Taylor is a fearless target player in front of the goal.</p><p>&#8220;He loves that part of it,&#8221; Tim Twellman said. &#8220;He&#8217;s always scored goals, ever since he&#8217;s been little. He&#8217;s relentless around that goal. He never stops. He&#8217;s taken his bruises, but he likes being up front.&#8221;</p><p>Taylor Twellman credits much of his success to his father, who was a high-scoring forward at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville before he was moved to defender in the foreign player-laden NASL.</p><p>&#8220;He was one of the few Americans to play in the outdoor days, and he had to change positions &#8230;&#8221; Taylor Twellman said. &#8220;My dad won&#8217;t talk about it, but he scored a lot of goals in college. But if he wanted to stay professional, he had to become a defender, and he chose to do that.&#8221;</p><p>Twellman has good genes on both sides of his family. Besides his dad and uncles Mike and Steve Twellman, who also played in the NASL, his grandfather on his mother&#8217;s side, Jim Delsing, was a major-league outfielder for 10 seasons, finishing with the Kansas City Athletics in 1960; and his uncle on his mother&#8217;s side, Jay Delsing, played on the PGA Tour.</p><p>&#8220;He was always very gifted athletically,&#8221; Tim Twellman said of his son, who played baseball and soccer at Maryland. &#8220;Whatever we were playing, he always did well. He didn&#8217;t have a choice coming from this family.&#8221;</p><p>Twellman, the 2005 league MVP and leading goal scorer with 17, has missed half of this season because of injuries. He underwent surgery to repair a tear in his right medial meniscus on April 2, sidelining him for the first seven games. He also missed another seven matches during May 17-June 21 while rehabbing an ankle injury.</p><p>Though he&#8217;s appeared in just 13 games, starting nine, Twellman has seven goals on just 21 shots, including the game-tying goal Saturday night against Real Salt Lake.