Talalay: Altidore's next stop? Video game box
Boca Raton’s Jozy Altidore keeps making his mark.
The 17-year-old forward for Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls is the second youngest athlete to appear on the cover of an EA Sports video game. Altidore joins Mexican national team goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa and Brazilian International star Ronaldinho on the cover of EA Sports FIFA Soccer 08 in North America, EA announced this week.
“It’s exciting to be on the cover of my favorite videogame and I am really looking forward to playing as myself in FIFA Soccer 08,” Altidore said in a statement. “I can hardly wait to play with my virtual character wearing the Red Bull uniform and taking on the world’s top defenders one-on-one."
Freddy Adu was the youngest at 16 when he appeared on the cover of EA’s FIFA Soccer 06.
Altidore is also currently being featured in adidas’ “Impossible is Nothing” campaign.
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
