Good, good, good. Good. Good.
You have to live up to the name rights hero.
He has this amazing
confidence about him. That's very genuine.
He loves people.
As soon as he started to walk. He was running after the tennis
ball. He was running after the soccer spoil. He was chasing
them. Everyone, every boy in German.
I play soccer every single one
and I was always like a child, beer kids. I remember me walk
like running last ended up, not working out for me since I was
a big guy and I was always a foul on the play.
Yeah, hold on.
Hold on.
So coach. We're Zar our head football, coach and Sean.
Embry, our assistant head football coach early on, in
their careers. They before they came to some argue. They were
working in coaching, football in Germany, and in Europe,
Brandon Collier, he and I were College, roommates.
Brandon was the first really to
Help kids. Go directly from Europe to college. We go around
country to Country off for Europe. We need help guy from
over 25 countries. Roughly 90 kids. That's playing college
football in America. I got introduced to Hero by one of
the. Another kid. I was helping me
fill up a calm. Cool. From the same Village that here will
grow up being
that was just playing soccer will be kicking around with
the ball and he was throwing the football against the post.
I was like, let me try that mean was already.
For twenty sixty pounds and can move great. Because
the soccer over there,
the footwork from soccer, just the overall strength for
a Nigerian background. He has as well. And I was like, I gotta
step my game up a little bit. I got to get better. That got to
get better in a language like School. Get adjusted to that
and just a normal football life.
First. I was a little bit afraid
but this is a chance. You don't get it a second time. So
we sent him. So there's a lot of paperwork, in terms of
the US state department in the
B says, and things like that. That
that's actually was the easier. Part, more importantly, was, it
was in the middle of covid. And so, he did his first semester
of his junior year online and on a different time zone
school, they started at 5 p.m. And at midnight and I still had
homework
to do. So, I stayed up late to like three am coming here alone.
I didn't know anybody and here comes this kid, this big smile
up. The driveway. Hello. Nice to meet you. Mr. Pierce misses.
Pierce. Thank you for giving me a place to live that gratitude
really brought
a light into our house. Imagine being 16 and living in another
country during covid. The strength fortitude that he has
that. His mom has the trust, the faith, the patient's,
because of all this covert stuff. I have to follow his
games and his life from Germany and Judith actually, caught
covid in December, and that was kind of a sobering moment.
I spend a lot of time in the hospital.
I think it was afraid. Of course. It's like you have to
make sacrifices to achieve greatness in your life.
And that's what I'm seeking. I'm seeking for greatness.
Everybody's always talking about pushing their physical
limits, but not their their mind.
And that's I think one thing that helped me so much in this
process. I push my limits from, like my mindset.
There was definitely an adjustment period in
the beginning. What was so cool to see though was just how fast he
got things and how he progressed. But I think
the thing that we're all most proud of Here is that he got elected
to be
a captain and to earn the
respect of his peers. And for a kid who really should be
a junior in high school based on his age, coming from another
country that mean, that's a really impressive feat to
achieve.
My son is playing linebacker behind him on this team and
just talks about what a positive role model. He roots
for the underdog, he roots for the Freshman. He's high five
and them on the sidelines. He roots for the kids that aren't
necessarily as talented as he is of these kids became a
Brothers. If I had problems, I went
To a team and talk to them. So I just want to see them being
successful,
very first, not American being elected to the American Bowl.
I mean, it's all American Girl, and I'm not even American and
I really feel honored and blessed come,
if you ask hero, if this experience is just for him.
I think the answer back would be something like he's doing
this for himself, for his family for PPI and Brandon,
helping build something that's bigger than him. I just think
that he's going to impact so many people alive.
Lives. Not only here in America, but I mean, from
the culture and Germany to make young kids believe, hero condo
can do it. I can do it.