Soccer star Eddie Johnson will train 3-year-old removed from Florida youth league
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Eddie Johnson, the former striker for the U.S. men’s national team, said that his Central Florida soccer academy would train the 3-year-boy who was removed from an i9 Sports youth program last weekend.Read more trending news Johnson, the former MLS and Premier League player who runs EJE7 Soccer Academy in Orlando, announced the offer in an Instagram post on Monday. He said that Nevada Pierre’s removal from the program in Winter Park, and the league’s decision to call the police, are trends that are hurting youth soccer in the United States, ESPN reported.The boy will start training at Johnson’s academy in January.“His situation has brought light to a lot of the things that still exist in youth soccer in this country,” Johnson wrote. “Entitlement, Jealousy, Envy, Nepotism, Gatekeeping and profiling especially against people of color.”League officials with the i9 Sports program contacted the Winter Park Police Department on Oct. 25 about an alleged disturbance at Martin Luther King Jr. P