Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Had you hurried by, it would’ve looked like any other high school soccer game, one of thousands being played across the country on a gray Tuesday afternoon. And yet this wasn’t an ordinary game being played at Princeton High, a public school in an Ivy League college town in New Jersey. ⁠ ⁠ If you got closer, you’d have seen that the host team, the Tigers, were dressed in warm up T-shirts reading #IStandWithEvan. It was their tribute to a beloved alumni, Evan Gershkovich, class of 2010, a Journal reporter who has been in a Russian prison for six months for doing nothing more than his job of chronicling the truth. ⁠ ⁠ Friends at the Journal know Evan Gershkovich as an outstanding journalist and generous colleague, the very best of who we are, writes columnist Jason Gay. ⁠ ⁠ At Princeton High, especially on this rectangle of turf behind the Gothic main building, he remains Evan, No. 18, the wisecracking, scholastically-gifted, Arsenal soccer-crazed child of Soviet immigrants who was the captain and an essential member of a Tigers team that won a state championship in 2009. “A gift from the soccer gods,” is how Evan’s former coach, Wayne Sutcliffe, described him.⁠ ⁠ Gershkovich was Princeton High’s center midfielder—an exhausting position with offensive and defensive obligations. Vocal and relentless, Evan became the engine of an overachieving squad. He was not the biggest or the fastest, but he excelled through persistence and vision.⁠ “He could not run. But he was the best passer in the entire state,” said one of Evan’s former teammates, Thatcher Foster.⁠ ⁠ At the moment, Gershkovich is being held in Russia’s Lefortovo prison. Princeton High friends have seen the images of Evan in court appearances, looking poised, even smiling. They believe—and hope—the qualities they saw in their teammate will serve him in a difficult situation. ⁠ ⁠ Read more of Gay’s column at the link in our bio. ⁠ ⁠ 📷: @bryananselm for @wsjphotos」9月30日 4時45分