Philadelphia Inquirer
US · 32 mins ago
One is making his name in tackle football, the other in the soccer version: Meet the Flowers
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Football is a family affair for the Flowers brothers. They just differ on the definition.Aaron Flowers plays American football for No. 2 Oregon, while younger brother Benji was developed by the vaunted FC Dallas soccer academy and just signed a deal with Chelsea.Benji, now 15, will join the Premier League team when he turns 18. Until then, he'll continue to work on his game in Texas. He became the youngest player to sign a professional contract with the senior team as a homegrown player in late July.Benji jokes that he wasn't cut out for his big brother's brand of football.“Well, he was way bigger than me, and also I think that he could take hits more, way more than me, and he was like twice my weight, twice my height, like around my age. So I think that’s probably why
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