It was Banquet Night for Faith Christian.
Maroon table cloths covered round tables in the school cafeteria. There was gold trimming and hand-drawn poster boards celebrating the Boys Soccer Sectional Championship that the Eagles had won just a month prior. Underneath the monthly lunch menu, a collection of year-end awards decorated a rectangle card table at the front of the room.
It read: MOST IMPROVED PLAYER: COLE UNGARO.
Cole had begged his Mom, Tammy, for the family to make the 122-mile drive from Lafayette, Indiana to Chicago, Illinois to see his favorite player, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and the LA Galaxy in person.