For many people soccer is how we avoid real life. We watch players kick a little ball into a net and then scream in ecstasy. But then our heroes get damaged. Life reminds us that soccer is not an avoidance of reality, because it is a part of it. With Friday’s news that Clint Dempsey will not play in the next three competitive matches on his slate due to heart trouble the American soccer community rallied around the iconic forward.
One of the first was someone who knows exactly how real life and soccer can intersect - Steve Zakuani.