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Talalay: Altidore's next stop? Video game box

FIFA08new.jpgBoca 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.

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SARAH TALALAY
After a decade as a news reporter in New Jersey, Southern California, Chicago and South Broward, Talalay decided to trade in covering meetings about city government and schools for meetings about sports deals and stadium finance...
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