Life’s unpredictability can from time to time be its biggest gift.
In 2020 Chandler Hovik’s life changed, for the far better, in a way no one particular, himself integrated, could have ever imagined.
Very little did the Central Superior School head varsity coach know what begun as a rather regimen stroll outside in the course of university several hours, would transform into a life-altering introduction to a young guy, named Ismail “Izzy” Foz.
“Izzy was in 1 of my co-personnel PE lessons,” Hovik recalled to the “Zone Go through.” “He was on the industry kicking a soccer ball and I have hardly ever found a kid kick a ball so hard. I known as him above, released myself, and asked him if he ever played soccer, and if he required to consider to occur kick for us.”
By way of his then damaged English, Foz agreed to give it a test.
“The following week he came to an off-period apply and we knew he was heading to be unique,” Hovik recalled. “His angle and strength is some thing that all people feeds off of.”
Izzy’s positivity has always been a beacon of hope for a teenager with the odds stacked towards him. A tale much additional complicated than simply just a prep athlete striving to hone his capabilities at a new activity.
He is a 16-year-aged refugee from Burundi, Africa. His dad continue to resides in Africa, his mom in London. He was lifted by his grandmother and came to the United States searching for a better everyday living, and future, for himself, and his five siblings (a single older sister, one more youthful sister, 3 youthful brothers).
“In Africa, it was so terrible,” Foz claimed to the “Zone Browse.” “Life was so difficult. My grandma was accomplishing her very