“Zusi to take it...AND IT’S THERE! What about that! It’s John Brooks! It’s John Brooks for the USA! Have they stolen it?!”
With those words by the great Ian Darke, every American soccer fan who was watching the USMNT’s opening match in the 2014 World Cup rose out of their feet in bedlam. The United States had taken a late lead and it was a German-American who went down in history as the hero of the World Cup.
Meet John Brooks.
John Brooks, born and raised in Berlin to a German mom (his dad is an American serviceman), came up through the ranks at Hertha Berlin.