BEAVERTON, Ore. – He remembers being nine years old when he first prayed about it. Maybe he was eight, he says. It’s hard to remember the promises you make to yourself when you’re a child.
This offseason, though, those promises finally came good. When Portland Timbers forward Fanendo Adi returned to Nigeria this winter, he finally opened the church he had always dreamed of.
“It’s something I had in my mind, a promise I made, that when I played professional football, I was going to do the church and give back to society,” Adi, 27, explained.