Ryan Hollingshead, FC Dallas MLS Soccer Player - Episode 71
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Hollingshead is a professional soccer player in the MLS with FC Dallas.
On January 6, 2017, Ryan Hollingshead almost died.
While stopping to help a stranded motorist, Ryan was stuck by a motor vehicle that had crashed due to icy conditions, launching him 30 feet into the air. He sustained three broken veterbrae in his neck as a result of the collision, but miraculously survived and then returned to soccer in the summer of 2017.
On this episode of the podcast, Ryan shares his story of coming to faith in Christ, putting his professional soccer career on hold to help his brother plant a church, and how he survived a near-death auto accident.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:08.1 | collide. |
| 0:09.2 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome everyone to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.9 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:17.8 | It is 2018, and it is awesome to have you joining us here on the podcast. Over 125,000 downloads we've had on the Sports Spectrum podcast since we launched it March 31st, 2017, and it's been awesome to hear the stories of sports and faith and to hear your response and to hear how you have |
| 0:40.5 | really taken to these stories. So it's been a privilege to be a part of and we're just grateful |
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| 0:55.4 | have daily content including a daily devotional every morning at 6 a.m. to get your day started |
| 1:01.0 | and content all day long updated content intersecting the world of sports and of faith. |
| 1:08.5 | Today's guest on the podcast, he plays soccer for FC Dallas in the MLS, and his name is |
| 1:15.4 | Ryan Hollingshead. |
| 1:16.9 | Ryan was selected in the second round with a 20th overall pick in the 2013 MLS Superdraft. |
| 1:24.2 | And Ryan's story is a pretty crazy one because after playing college soccer at UCLA, and he was an All-American in 2012, he decided to put his professional career on hold to begin a church with his brother and help plant a church, sort of start and build a church. |
| 1:42.3 | And then he's, after finishing his call there, he gets back into the world of soccer, |
| 1:47.7 | professional soccer, with FC Dallas, and has a good career, a couple years. |
| 1:53.1 | And then all of a sudden in January of 2017, just about a year ago, January 6th of 2017, |
| 2:00.5 | Ryan almost died. |
| 2:02.6 | He was in a nasty car accident and broke three vertebrae in his neck and just the way that |
| 2:11.6 | he recalls that accident and then the way that he recovered from it to come back and play soccer. |
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