AUSTIN, Texas, June 30 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:
In 2006, McCombs School of Business alumnus Will Acheampong's father pulled him out of school to watch a soccer match on TV.
The game was the United States versus Ghana at the Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA) World Cup in Germany, and Acheampong says watching that game with his Ghanaian father is a core memory. It ended with the U.S. losing to Ghana on a penalty given up by a defender named Oguchi Onyewu.
Now, 20 years later, Acheampong, BBA '21, works at U.S. Soccer Federation headquarters in Atlanta. That same defender from his most poignant soccer memory - Onyewu - is a colleague. They Slack each other. They fist bump ...