I was saved when a team of interviewers came through. At Benning I would have been commissioned a second lieutenant and become an infantry platoon leader, and I knew that platoon leaders topped the killed-in-action lists. I had already gone through the hoops-chaplain, my platoon lieutenant, Lieutenant Whitmer, company captain, Captain Eckert, and OCS review board. Flint Whitlock CHAPTER 2: HOW SOCCER CHANGED MY LIFEĪt the end of basic training, I was recommended to attend OCS (Officer Candidate School) at Fort Benning, Georgia. Army and was stationed at the University of Missouri as a member of the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP).
The following excerpt was written by Joe after he had been drafted into the U.S. Sadly, that did not happen as he died in 2013 and the book, “Life is a Game,” was not published until 2022. Near the end of his life, Joe gave me his writings, artwork, and photographs in hopes that I could complete his autobiography during his lifetime.
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We subsequently became good friends after I moved to Denver to become the public relations director for the Denver Dynamos, Colorado’s first professional soccer team. “Joe” Guennel, the “father of Colorado soccer,” when I was living in Colorado Springs in the early 1970s. Army in the 1960s), I met German-born Dr. "Life Is A Game" follows the rise of the "father of Colorado soccer" CloseĪuthor’s note: Because of my interest and involvement in soccer (I played in college and in West Germany when I was stationed there with the U.S.
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