A teenage Nick Rimando kicks the soccer ball around his house when he accidentally punts it into his family’s entertainment center. It slams into the glass doors, shattering them and showering the floor in little shards.
He’d already broken several lamps, so his parents weren’t entirely surprised. And his mom, Rose, was constantly telling him, “Not in the house. Not in the house.”
But growing up, Rimando couldn’t help it. Soccer was all he wanted to do. All he wanted to be.
“It was something we got over real quick,” said Marcus Rimando, Nick’s father. “It may make a future for him or something — which it happened to be.