Ah-hoo! On the football pitch he prowls like Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, or Tom Cruise's Vincent Launa slamming the eight ball into the side pocket. He's not swaggering and cocky like Vincent, goading his opponents into challenges they can't handle. Instead he is serious, studious and devout.
Though his family is from the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Haastrup grew up playing soccer on the playing fields of East London, where he was born and lived until he was nine. He and his mother and sister came to America, first to California, then to Katy, Texas.