Jeremy Fishbein, a soccer player or coach for almost half a century, has always practiced physical fitness.
Yet, he recently came home to Albuquerque lighter and leaner still after 15 months in India – no longer carrying the excess weight of anger and ego.
In 2018, the University of New Mexico shuttered for budgetary reasons Fishbein’s highly successful men’s soccer program. As hard as he fought to save that program from the administrative ax, he was unable to do so.
Afterward, Fishbein studied for and acquired a Realtor’s license. He served as a volunteer coach for the girls program at Albuquerque High, where his younger daughter, Gabriela, was playing at the time.