A Ford crossover pulls up to my dad’s apartment in downtown Chicago with an American Insulation sticker on the rear window. I get in and sit next to an Italian-American kid with a jet-black, scruffy beard and a blue University of Kentucky hat. “That’s him,” my friend tells me as we enter the car. “That’s the man himself.” “The man” is Johnny Macchione, a 23-year-old, who lives with his parents in Bartlett, Ill., a suburb an hour north of Chicago.He continues to play recreational soccer after stints with Loris College (Dubuque, Iowa) and Elgin (Ill.) Community College, works for his ...
