Excessive Faculty Soccer Legend James ‘Radio’ Kennedy Dies
James “Radio” Kennedy, a South Carolina highschool soccer legend and the primary topic of the 2003 movie Radio, has reportedly handed away.
In line with his niece and caregiver, Jackie Kennedy, the 73-year-old was taken to Hospice of the Upstate in Anderson County Saturday afternoon (December 14) the place he died early Sunday morning.
Kennedy was related to the T.L. Hanna highschool soccer program for many years starting within the mid-1960s. In line with former T.L. Hanna principal Sheila Hilton, he started observing practices when he was a teen “with a transistor radio seemingly connected to his ear, who might barely converse and had by no means realized to learn or write.
“He was nicknamed Radio by the coaches and gamers,” Hilton continued, in response to WYFF four. “He turned a fixture at soccer practices, standing passively and watching, till sooner or later when he started to imitate the coaches’ indicators and tried his hand at yelling out instructions. At that time, he might have been labeled a distraction and despatched away. However he was not. The coaches embraced him, and as coaches got here and went, somebody would all the time take over in caring for him.”
Throughout his early years across the program, former T.L. Hanna soccer coach Harold Jones befriended Radio. That friendship could be portrayed within the 2003 movie Radio with Kennedy portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr.
In early December, WYFF four stories that Kennedy was hospitalized and handled for pancreatitis and different ongoing diabetes and kidney points. The reason for his loss of life isn’t clear.
Our ideas exit to James “Radio” Kennedy’s household and associates throughout this most troublesome time.