OT: Pedro DeBrito, RIP

[Waquoit]

A former UConn soccer great, Pedro died over the weekend from injuries suffered in a car crash. It's sad and ironic timing for me as he was one of the reasons I went fron soccer hater to soccer fan. His time at UConn mirrored mine as well as being the most successful 4-year stretch in program history. UConn was a power every year he was there and won the whole thing when he was a senior. He assisted on both goals in the National Championship game. He was a great college player from his first game as a frosh. I never really met him aside from being in the same pick-up hoop games once in awhile.

 

[StevieDude]

That's horrible.

The summer before I entered high school was '81 and I went to Connecticut Soccer School. I played goalie and to this day I still remember Pedro peppering me with shots one morning as we waited for the day to start. It was so cool watching them in the fall win it all.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

I was only 14 in '81, but used to go to most of the games on campus with my brother who was a student there. Great times watching him, Comrie, both Morrone's and others. I also learned some things from the North Goal Gang. I know I watched the championship on TV and am assuming it was on ESPN, but that detail escapes me. We were America's Team, especially when compared to A&M.

 

[Matrim55]

RIP. He's a UConn legend.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I'll never forget The Famed Juju magic game .
PD, and EC , were big time players.

For those of you that didn't watch A&M was essentially all Nigerian.
Their custom was to wave handkerchiefs at the opposing team to give them bad JuJu just before the kickoff
The Huskies were prepared and countered by waving their own handkerchiefs .
This kind of surprised them and we went on to win the NC.

 

[Bayareahusky]

What a sad story.... God Bless Pedro!! He was amazing for us..... I remember he was functionally so good..... the contrast to Elvis Comrie's improv slick moves..... when Pedro had the ball you knew he was going to do the right thing with it..... as evidenced by fact that he assisted on both goals in national championship game...... Thank you for being so great, Pedro.

 

[Johnny Mac]

IIRC, his goal in the NC game was a laser from about 30 yds. I remember Joe Marrone jumping on the pile at the end of the game. Good times.

 

[Steve85]

A former UConn soccer great, Pedro died over the weekend from injuries suffered in a car crash. It's sad and ironic timing for me as he was one of the reasons I went fron soccer hater to soccer fan. His time at UConn mirrored mine as well as being the most successful 4-year stretch in program history. UConn was a power every year he was there and won the whole thing when he was a senior. He assisted on both goals in the National Championship game. He was a great college player from his first game as a frosh. I never really met him aside from being in the same pick-up hoop games once in awhile.

RIP to Pedro. what a great, great player. I was a frosh his senior year and remember perhaps the most amazing individual play I have ever seen in person at a UCONN match and that was when Pedro curled a corner kick into the goal. what a player!