Oh, this is a beautiful story ;) Glad to read that despite losing his football dream, he excelled in another field. Brilliant write-up HB!
By the way, I noticed your tags are all tribe ones, you might want to use some that are relevant to your post, like for instance this post could be tagged "fiction" or "creativewriting" or "writing" (the first 5 tags) and then the tribe tags after them. It will help curators find your post easily.
RE: Shattered dream