IN THE MEDIA
Why former MLS player Amir Lowery is running for Congress
MLSSoccer.com
June 15, 2020
WASHINGTON – A former MLS player is hoping to follow in the footsteps of George Weah and Cuauhtemoc Blanco with an upstart run for office.
Amir Lowery, a central defender and midfielder who played for Colorado, Kansas City and San Jose in MLS as well as the Montreal Impact and Carolina Railhawks in the lower divisions over an eight-year pro career, aims to add his name to the list of footballers turned politicians by throwing his hat in the ring for the role of the District of Columbia’s Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Amir Lowery on his bid for Congress, his work for the MLS Players Association, and his D.C. inner city youth program
Soccer America
Friday, July 10, 2020
by Arlo Moore-Bloom
Amir Lowery, who’s running for Washington, D.C.’s delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, is a man who wears many hats. He runs the Open Goal Project, a non-profit he founded in 2015 that addresses the pay-to-play barriers in D.C. youth soccer and includes a summer fitness program for college-bound players from his community; and he’s a Players Relations Manager for the MLS Players Association.
In D.C., a small step toward tackling U.S. youth soccer’s accessibility problem
Washington Post
Oct. 29, 2017
by Steven Goff
When his playing career ended, Amir Lowery began coaching youth soccer in the city and quickly recognized a problem.
“D.C. wasn’t truly represented,” he recalled this week. The players were mostly from private schools and higher socioeconomic circles in upper Northwest, a makeup that left potentially many talented kids behind.
“I had a sense,” Lowery said, “I could find some kids from the inner-city who maybe needed a look and could hack it with our team and grow into the system.”
From that experience three years ago, a nonprofit was born: Open Goal Project.