{"id":2455873,"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/uncategorized\/teddy-goalsevelt-our-hero\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T20:48:37","slug":"teddy-goalsevelt-our-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/teddy-goalsevelt-our-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Goalsevelt Is Our Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon, the U.S. men\u2019s soccer team will take on Belgium in the Round of 16<\/a> at the FIFA World Cup. Led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø<\/em>\u2019s July cover guy, Clint Dempsey<\/a>, Team USA has sent the nation into an unprecedented state of frenzied football fandom<\/a>. If this exuberance could be distilled into one superfan, that fan would probably look something like Mike D\u2019Amico\u2019s alter ego, Teddy Goalsevelt.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Amico, 31, is a Chicago adman<\/a> and longtime soccer enthusiast. Part of a fan group called the American Outlaws, D\u2019Amico traveled to Brazil to support Dempsey and company while attending matches dressed as the original Rough Rider himself, Teddy Roosevelt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Had things gone differently, D\u2019Amico would have remained another anonymous, if flamboyantly costumed fan, but after ESPN cameras showed him celebrating Jermaine Jones\u2019s spectacular strike against Portugal on June 22, Goalsevelt became an instant celebrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just the lucky schmuck they cut to when he was losing his mind on ESPN,\u201d D\u2019Amico told ABC News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mike D’Amico, 31, is a Chicago adman and longtime soccer enthusiast. Part of a fan group called the American Outlaws, D’Amico traveled to Brazil to support Clint Dempsey and company while attending matches dressed as the original Rough Rider himself, Teddy Roosevelt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1653486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"uuid":"715e89df2e765a7e1f71f2988b6c4d4a","footnotes":""},"categories":[2536],"tags":[2858,2856],"byline":[1213],"ad_cat":[],"legacy-category":[],"class_list":["post-2455873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoor-adventure","tag-news","tag-newsletter-suppress","byline-martin-fritz-huber"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Teddy Goalsevelt Is Our Hero","url":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/teddy-goalsevelt-our-hero\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/teddy-goalsevelt-our-hero\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated-images_parent\/migrated-images_85\/teddy-goalsevelt_fe.jpg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/migrated-images_parent\/migrated-images_85\/teddy-goalsevelt_fe.jpg"},"articleSection":"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"sperkins-pom"}],"creator":["sperkins-pom"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Online","logo":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/favicon-194x194-1.png"},"keywords":["news","newsletter suppress"],"dateCreated":"2014-07-01T00:00:00Z","datePublished":"2014-07-01T00:00:00Z","dateModified":"2022-02-24T20:48:37Z"},"rendered":"