A homeless teenager in Texas will soon be joining the ranks of college football stars.
Leslie Adindu, a senior at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas, has signed a letter of intent to join the football team at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri.TODAY All DayAdindu, 19, immigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria last year, enrolling as a junior at his high school.
Leslie Adindu, right, appears at a press conference with his football coach, Charles Perry. Adindu, who lives in a homeless shelter, signed a letter of intent to play college football with Southwest Baptist University this week.Though life on the football field was going well for the athlete, things at home were another story.
Adindu told KXAS that he and his father got into a fight. After his father moved away, Adindu was forced to move into a shelter for people without housing. "The big thing with being homeless, especially the kids we have, we don't want them to lose hope," Perry told the station."In that situation, you're surrounded by people who have lost hope."
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