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...Early on, Rockey put his sons in a position to succeed. Andre?? remembers being dragged out of bed on Saturday mornings as a child to practice with a team full of boys who were four years older. It was Adrian’s U-12 team, and Rockey was the coach...
...skinny little kid then,” says Rockey, who brought Andre?? to the practices as early as the age of three, “and he’d get knocked down and cry, but he got back...
...Later on, Rockey put Adrian and Andre?? on the women’s National Team training program, which he had found while leafing through an old magazine. The brothers’ summer fitness regimen included weight training, running drills, and zooming around obstacle courses at the local YMCA. Chairs, boxes—nothing was so ordinary it couldn’t stand in for a defender. Andre?? drilled with his father for two and three hours at a time...
...program was the genesis of young Andre??s improvisational virtuosity. He learned how to shoot. He learned how to pass. He built his game on a foundation of ball-handling tricks, like the move that Harvard teammate Cheyoon Im calls “the fisherman’s touch” (hint: imagine reeling in a defender, then blowing...
...time Andre?? had finished his club career 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...