Mujtaba Naqib ’24 On His Journey from Kabul to Annandale
For Mujtaba Naqib ’24, it all started in the Cruger entryway one winter night. His first night at Bard, he couldn’t sleep. “I just decided to go outside,” Naqib said. “I saw some boys kicking a soccer ball around, and I just leaned up against the wall and was watching them.” Five Bard students had set up two trash cans as goals. “We saw this guy was watching us for a while so we just asked him if he wanted to play,” said Reed Campbell ’25. “And he immediately started cooking us.” Within a few months, Naqib would join them on the Bard men’s soccer team. In a wide-ranging profile by Bard Athletics, Naqib, known as “Muji” to his teammates, talks openly about his transition to the United States and Bard after the fall of Kabul, his connection with Coach TJ Kostecky, and his summer internship with Pfizer, as well as what it means to play with “heart.”
Post Date: 10-12-2022
Post Date: 10-12-2022