Alejandro Bedoya didn’t just want to qualify for the World Cup for himself, or his teammates, or the U.S. soccer team’s ever-growing fan base.
He wanted to do it for his son, who will be just old enough next summer to be able to travel. Maybe the son wouldn’t have understood the full meaning of watching his father represent their country on the global game’s biggest stage, but the father would have.
That same son, his recently-born sister and their mother were at the airport on Wednesday when Bedoya returned from Trinidad.
“My son ran up to me,” Bedoya said.