There was pushback, naturally. Skepticism.
The Freeses are scientists, after all, not goalkeepers. They attend prestigious schools. They are biologists and physicists. The patriarch was a neurosurgeon who won awards as a pioneer in gene therapy.
Yet Matt Freese, a Harvard man, only desired to stop soccer balls from hitting a net.
“There were some arguments,” Freese said in an interview with The Post. “There were some tough times.”