Daily News | Four Union players led the U.S. men’s soccer team to end its 16-year Olympics drought
, respectively, to be precise — played at the famed Lighthouse Boys Club in Kensington before joining the Union’s academy.
Their families are close, too. Sullivan said they shared a rental home in Frisco, Texas, where Cavan Sullivan and Andrew Craig played for the Union’s under-15 team in the MLS Next Showcase tournament. The Union squad reached the round of 16 before bowing out. Brandan Craig said he’s “getting constant text messages from family members, from friends … It’s really special to see that, and it’s lovely to hear it, because this is something that not many players get to do.”
Sullivan has Olympic soccer in his genes. His cousin, former Union player and assistant technical director Chris Albright, was on the 2000 U.S. team that finished fourth in Sydney,Quinn Sullivan’s bicycle-kick goal in his first MLS start was a dream moment for one of Philly soccer’s most famous families
That’s just the start of the quartet’s roots in the sport. Sullivan’s parents, Brendan and Heike, played at Penn. Brendan’s father, Larry, played at Temple for Walter Bahr, then coached at colleges and high schools across the region. Union coach Jim Curtin played for him at Villanova.Paxten’s brother Brenden“He texts me, he calls me after the games, just telling me how proud he is,” Paxten said of Brenden. “That’s all I can ask for, is making my family proud. So it’s been great.
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