Navy freshman striker Baba Kallie admits he doesn’t know much about the history of the country where he was born. The extent of his knowledge is what his grandmother has shared with him.
Born in 2001, Kallie was just four months old when the family fled the West African nation during its second Civil War for Guinea. While Ismael emigrated to the United States when Kallie was 2, he left alone. The remainder of the Kallie family lived in Guinea for more than a decade.
“I could never have imagined me going to the Naval Academy,” Kallie said.