That’s where it all began and that’s why Howard has risen to this point. national team, he made his first start in a World Cup in 2010 and then again this year in Brazil. And finally, how, after eight years with the U.S. How he was offered a job as the starting goalkeeper for Manchester United in 2003, and after three years there, began at Everton, where he became a star. How he established himself as a talented goalkeeper in high school and eventually was given a shot to make the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (now Red Bulls) roster. How he overcame a Tourette syndrome diagnosis in the sixth grade. He may never figure that out, but he will forever understand how he did it.
“It was a one-bedroom apartment she made into a three-bedroom apartment,” Howard said in an interview with USA Today. And it was she who drove Howard to soccer practices and tournaments almost every day of the week. It was Esther who worked two jobs to put food on the table. While his father remained in Howard’s life, it was Esther who raised he and his brother Chris in a one-bedroom apartment. The son of an African American father and Hungarian mother, his parents divorced when he was just three years old, robbing him of a normal childhood.Įsther, which is his mother’s first name, became the family’s backbone. Howard wasn’t raised like most children of his generation. national team – than the name written on the middle of his chest. But perhaps none are more significant to Howard’s story, to how he got to the place he now finds himself in – the leader of the U.S.
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