Back when Pete Wentz, the Bassist for Fall Out Boy, was 17, he was the captain of his high school soccer team. And check it out, he was good enough to earn all-state honors in Illinois.

“I played soccer, but I wasn’t really a jock,” Wentz laughed. “It was something I was really passionate about. I feel like I had a magical connection with the ball. I wanted to play professional soccer in Europe.”

Wentz carried his pro soccer dreams on with him to DePaul University, but it was there that he also started playing in bands, leading him to eventually drop out of school and pursue music full time. Surprisingly, when he was 17, music never really even entered into the equation.

“Music was actually harder for me,” Wentz said. “And, at 17, if somebody told me that I would be doing what I’m doing now, I wouldn’t in any way believe them.”

source : mtv