NYCFC’s Matt Freese bucked family’s scientist aspirations to chase budding MLS stardom

There was pushback, naturally. Skepticism. 

The Freeses are scientists, after all, not goalkeepers. They attend prestigious schools. They are biologists and physicists. The patriarch was a neurosurgeon who won awards as a pioneer in gene therapy.

Yet Matt Freese, a Harvard man, only desired to stop soccer balls from hitting a net.

“There were some arguments,” Freese said in an interview with The Post. “There were some tough times.”