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The lifelong education of USMNT goalkeeper (and Ha...

The starting USMNT goalkeeper has an economics degree from Harvard. In his remarkable family, that makes him the underachiever.

The lifelong education of USMNT goalkeeper (and Ha...
Source: ESPN Soccer

Before we start, there's something that Matt Freese would like you to understand. Yes, there's going to be a lot of stuff in this story about his father. He gets that. It's sort of inevitable. The medical genius father of the starting U.S. men's national team goalkeeper, who frowned on his son's career choice and then died too young -- it's narratively irresistible, and we won't be resisting it here.

But his mom, Marcia Geary Wolicki, was the one who supported his soccer dreams, the ballast to all the academic and social ambitions projected onto him; the one who mostly raised him and his three…

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