Club: Chicago Fire
Position: Midfielder/Defender
Birth date: August 22, 1981
Hometown: Raleigh, NC

90:00 If you can play on any team, in any game, in any stadium in the world—which one would it be?
Pause: I’d replay the U.S./Mexico Olympic qualifier.

90:00 Which player do you hate playing against the most? Toughest opponent?
Pause: The ones everyone says they don’t like playing against—I like playing against. For example… Landon Donovan, Kyle Martino. It’s those players who make you better.

90:00 In the last seconds of the game, you are crossing the ball in the box—who do you want on the receiving end of that ball? (This can be anyone in the world.)
Pause: Ronaldo.

90:00 Who was your favorite team growing up?
Pause: Edmonton Oilers… for Wayne Gretzsky of course.

90:00 Who was your favorite player?
Pause: Wayne Gretsky

90:00 What has been the best perk you’ve gotten as a soccer player? Anything specific you wish you had gotten?
Pause: Playing the game I love as a job. It would be nice to sign a multimillion dollar contract, of course, but I can’t complain.

90:00 Who is the most underrated player on your team?
Pause: Jim Curtain—one of the best too

90:00 Best player you’ve played with…
Pause: Chris Armas.

90:00 Best player you’ve played against…
Pause: Landon Donovan.

90:00 Your biggest influence...
Pause: My parents.

90:00 Any Superstitions?
Pause: Not really. Kind of boring, huh?

90:00 Which major sporting event would you like to be a part of other than a soccer one?
Pause: The Stanley Cup

90:00 Which women’s player is a must on your team in a 2 vs. 2 coed match?
Pause: Cindy Parlow

90:00 Why?
Pause: She’s a good friend and she cracks me up.

90:00 Name your own fan club…
Pause: I have fans?

90:00 What’s your style off the field?
Pause: Laid-back

90:00 Penthouse or beach house?
Pause: Beach house

90:00 Books, magazines or newspapers?
Pause: Books

90:00 If you had to get a non-soccer job tomorrow—what would it be?
Pause: I’d be a math professor.

90:00 What’s the life of a pro soccer player like?
Pause: Wake up and go to practice. And then they have the rest of the afternoon—take a nap, go to the beach.

90:00 Have you ever used the fact that you’re a pro athlete to your advantage?
Pause: Consciously no… but it probably has
happened.

90:00 What are some of your hobbies?
Pause: Cycling, playing guitar (I suck) and spending time with people I enjoy.

90:00 Who would you most like to meet? (This can be anyone in the world.)
Pause: Lance Armstrong

90:00 Who would you like to be stuck in an elevator with? And why?
Pause: Angelina Jolie… enough said.

90:00 Which soccer player would you pay the most to watch?
Pause: Zidane.

90:00 The most intimidating place you’ve played…
Pause: Guadalajara

90:00 Where do you want to be in five years?
Pause: Hopefully still playing. I’d be happy playing here in   Chicago

90:00 What’s been your career highlight so far? Pause: Being so young and getting to play. Getting to play with guys like Chris Armas, DaMarcus Beasley and   Jesse Marsch

90:00 What’s been your career lowlight so far?
Pause: Not making the Olympics.

90:00 What would you say your style of play is most like?
Pause: Simple

90:00 Who would you most like to see in a Fire jersey?
Pause: Ben Olsen. I just like his style of play.

90:00 Any advice you’d give a young soccer player?
Pause:Make sure you are doing it because you love it.

90:00 Fondest soccer memory…
Pause: NCAA National Championship and the Open Cup Championship.

90:00 Tell us something we don’t know about you...
Pause: I wish I were Napoleon Dynamite.