{"id":16177,"date":"2014-06-20T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16177"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T13:52:54","slug":"while-the-world-watches-the-world-cup-nigerian-striker-fanendo-adi-settles-into-portland-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/20\/while-the-world-watches-the-world-cup-nigerian-striker-fanendo-adi-settles-into-portland-role\/","title":{"rendered":"While the world watches the World Cup, Nigerian striker Fanendo Adi settles into Portland role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PORTLAND, Ore.\u2014While much of the soccer world focused on the World Cup, Nigerian striker Fanendo Adi concentrated on putting together boxes of food to donate to needy families in Portland.<\/p>\n

Adi is settling into his new roles\u2014both on the field and off\u2014with the Timbers, who acquired him on loan from FC Copenhagen last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very comfortable in Portland, very comfortable with the team,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to volunteer work in his new city, Adi contributed to his new team with a pair of goals in each of his first two starts with the club. He is the first Timber with two braces in a single season.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-4 forward has four goals and two assists in just six matches for the Timbers, who were 4-4-8 and in sixth place in the Western Conference heading into Major League Soccer\u2019s World Cup break.<\/p>\n

Adi has helped create space for midfielders Diego Valeri and Darlington Nagbe, giving both a big target in the box.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s what I am here for. I\u2019m just here to contribute as much as I can to the team. It\u2019s all about the team, not about an individual player,\u201d he said. \u201cMy work is to come in at any time I\u2019m given the opportunity and help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a pair of goals in Portland\u2019s 3-1 victory over Real Salt Lake earlier this month, Adi earned MLS Player of the Week honours.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not just helping me. He\u2019s helping the team,\u201d Valeri said. \u201cHis job is very important: We need what Adi is bringing. He is very strong in the box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valeri and Adi both spent an afternoon this week helping pack food boxes at the Portland Police Department\u2019s Sunshine Division.<\/p>\n

The event was part of Stand Together Week, a collaboration between the Timbers, the Portland Thorns of the NWSL, the staffs of both teams, sponsors, former players and fans.<\/p>\n

Hands On Greater Portland works with the two teams each year to help out organizations across the region, with the focus mostly on youth and the environment. Over the past two years participants have donated 4,212 volunteer hours to more than 30 nonprofits.<\/p>\n

Adi took time out from watching the World Cup\u2014he\u2019s rooting for his native Nigeria\u2014to help out. He said his focus has been on soccer, so he really hasn\u2019t had much of a chance to get out and meet fans in Portland.<\/p>\n

There is one thing looming for Adi in his adopted city: He has less than two months on his loan from FC Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

He said he would be agreeable to a deal to keep him in Portland and Timbers owner Merritt Paulson has said that he\u2019d like to have Adi through the season. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

Coach Caleb Porter likes what Adi brings to the Timbers, who also have experienced strikers Gaston Fernandez and Maximiliano Urruti .<\/p>\n

\u201cHis air play and ability to hold the ball as more of a target option will complement the qualities of our other players while providing a different dimension to our attack,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n

The Timbers, working during the break on shoring up their defence, return to MLS play on June 27 against Kansas City. With 18 regular-season matches left, there is still plenty of time to get in position for the playoffs: Last season Portland finished atop the Western Conference and advanced to the conference championship, where it fell to Real Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis team has grown, they\u2019ve built a lot of resiliency,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn the end, I think it\u2019s actually going to help us get to where we want to get because of what we\u2019ve gone through. We\u2019ve grown, we\u2019ve gotten stronger. We\u2019ve gotten humbled, we\u2019ve gotten hardened, we\u2019ve gotten even a little bit more hungry because of it, and we are still right there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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