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...only eight college players to make the final roster, Akpan??s road was particularly difficult due to the amount of depth at the forward position. Although he managed to score a hat trick against Haiti during qualifying, his spot on the roster wasn’t a sure thing, as he failed to receive significant starting time for the rest of qualifiers. Subsequent performances in international friendlies—he notched a goal and an assist against Canada—helped boost Akpan??s stock, and consequently, his position on the U-20 team...
...Freshman to Keep an Eye On—and he certainly lived up to his billing. The Grand Prairie, Texas, native was unanimously named Ivy League Rookie of the Year after leading all Division I freshmen in scoring with 34 points on 11 goals and 12 assists. Akpan??s accolades continued to grow after the season, including spots on the All-Ivy League First Team and the NSCAA Division I All-Northeast Region First Team...
Most notable, however, is Akpan??s ability to create plays—not only for himself, but also for his teammates. He has a keen sense of the rhythms of the game and of the movements of the players around him, making him an especially creative player...
...Akpan??s career brought him and his young wife, Bette, an American from Wisconsin, to Texas. In Grand Prairie, a large suburb of Arlington, itself a major satellite city of Dallas, the Akpans went about raising a family...
...with two national championships to his credit, graduated from high school with exactly 100 career goals after a hat trick in his final game against one of the state’s best defenders—“He deserves every accolade he gets,” says Akpan??s Oakridge coach, Jason Kern—and made his choice of Harvard over Duke, John Kerr could see elements of Eric Wynalda and Claudio Reyna in the young attacking midfielder. Kerr does not blush when he compares Akpan to recent luminaries of the Team USA program...