Matt Freese ’22 Featured in the Washington Post

Soccer is often described as a game of flow, but much of its beauty can be found in repetition. Runs are rehearsed until they look improvised. Passing are patterns drilled until they feel instinctive. Small routines carry players into the biggest games, as if some order can be sorted from the clockwork of chaos. That's why Matt Freese brought his own alarm clock to the World Cup.