It’s clear: soccer, or fútbol, is the planet’s most popular sport. From young children to seniors, an estimated 3.5 billion people follow the game, and roughly 250 million actively play it worldwide.
Like millions of others, Kaseem Ladipo grew up with sport, and now his children enjoy it too.
“You have to go all the way back to when I was five or six, playing in southwest Atlanta at the Young YMCA and getting exposed to the game at an early age. I wasn’t that good at five or six, but by 10 or 12, I had a few skills,” Ladipo said.
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