Imagine you are the first player to progress all the way from a soccer club’s junior level through the full academy and onto the first team. Contract signed. First league start, first league goal scored. First US Open Cup start, first US Open Cup goal scored.
Now imagine that you did it all before you finished high school, but now it’s time to graduate. And you have to give a speech.
What do you say?
“I’m going to write it now,” Anthony Fontana says on Wednesday. “I’ve been doing other stuff. Today it’s time to grind.