SPOKANE, Wash. – “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it,” said Spokane Velocity midfielder Pierre Reedy. “That affects how far you’ll go in life. Just keeping that mentality and just realizing that adversity’s a part of the game.”
Reedy is no stranger to overcoming anything for glory, from Big Ten titles in college to a Scottish Premiership title at Dundee, he’s a force of nature for coach Leigh Veidman’s squad.
“He’s a winger that attacks and attacks and attacks relentlessly, but he will run back as well and be relentless defensively, and that’s something you need in our league that is traditionally very, very transitional,” Veidman said.
The gaffer hand-picked Reedy to join his club in their inaugural season last year, rejoining him from their time together in Charleston in 2023.
“Coach Leigh is just a great guy to play for, you want to play for him. He looks out for us, and he looks out for me especially,” Reedy said. “It’s easy to do that when you got a coach you want to play for.”
“When I had the chance to bring him here, I jumped on it,” Veidman said. “Because I knew what he could do for the team. And he had an unfortunate situation last year where he picked up an injury that kept him out for most of the year.”
A torn labrum cut Reedy’s 2024 short, but that’s nothing new. Back-to-back ACL tears in his early college years at Penn State would’ve ended many athletes’ careers, but not Reedy’s.
“It’s kinda like one of the worst injuries you could go through, so I learned a lot going through those,” Reedy said. “And I think whatever I encounter now is a lot easier going through those.”
“It takes a special kind of grit within yourself to do it time and time again, because you get to a certain point as a professional footballer where you’re asking the question of ‘how many times can I do this’, but I think you see, again, Pierre’s mentality off the pitch when he is injured, where he works incredibly hard, and it’s exactly what you see on the pitch as well, he’s just relentless,” Veidman said.
Relentless all-around, Reedy recovering and earning a USL Player of the Week this summer, plus a man of the match this past weekend, he has plenty to be proud of.
“Probably just the fact that I’m still playing and my blue collar mentality,” Reedy said. “I don’t think I’m the prettiest player out there, but I always give 100%. Just trying to do whatever I can to try and help the team out.”
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