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Rebooting a career (Great piece)

Rebooting a career (Great piece)

By: Magnolia Tribune - October 9, 2010

Rebooting a career (Great piece)

IN COLUMBUS, OHIO The second calling in Devin Barclay’s athletic career, as the near-perfect place kicker for the second-ranked college football team in the country, came in 2006 when a chaplain introduced him to a delicatessen owner at a strip mall one mile west of Ohio Stadium. ¶ Barclay was 22, his life in soccer stalled by injuries and unmet expectations. Consumed by the sport since his childhood in Annapolis, he had come from the golden generation that turned out future U.S. World Cup performers Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and Oguchi Onyewu.

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