There are few similarities between football and theater, known as Tristian Eggerling. And he should know because he is both an attacker with OC Sporting White in the fourth level of division 1 of the leading football League and an actor whose credits include the “modern family” of television and the slasher with a screen “Halloween Kills”.
“They are polar opposite,” he said. “One of them is to have a mental desire to push you and push the pain and have a kind of stubbornness for you.”
It would be football.
“The other is much more about feeling in empathy and really agree with your emotions,” he adds. “You play a fantasy, but it's about putting your head in this fantasy.”
It would be acting.
Tristian Eggerling, football player for the FC and actor of the UPSL OC Sporting, repeats the lines with the acting coach Marnie Cooper in his home in Studio City on January 10.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
However, Eggerling, who is exceptional in both, is not sure that he will continue much longer with it. A 17 -year -old person who frequents online school, Eggerling has an average of 4.6 points and a passion for engineering. Thus, even if being an athlete or an actor – even less both – maybe a dream for many, it is simply not his dream.
“Since the age of 10, when we have done a JPL tour, I wanted to be an engineer for NASA,” said Eggerling. “This is more part of my identity. I have natural talent in mathematics and academics. I have the impression that these are more useful tools for life than playing football, acting. ”
Which does not mean that he also abandons for the moment.
“I do it just because I really like (that),” he said. “It's so fun to play a role or play a sport.”
Tristian Eggerling, 17, football player for FC OC Sporting of the UPSL, trains with coach Michael Holzer in Lexington Park in Cypress on January 7.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
Eggerling followed his brother Gabe by acting, making his debut at the age of 4. He then followed his father in football; Christian Eggerling played for 17 years but never had the chance to become pro in these pre-MLS days. His son, he says, can do it.
“I had my gifts and he has three steps ahead of me,” said the elder Eggerling, 54, executive director of the hotel and culinary operations of the City of Hope. “It has real potential.”
However, the coach of Eggerling, Paul Caligiuri, was A pro, playing 110 times for the American national team and made seven departures of the World Cup, pumps the brakes a little on these expectations.
“I don't think it's about the rhythm of becoming a professional right now,” said Caligiuri. “But he is a very unique individual with regard to the speed with whom he learned. (De) When I started to train it where it is now, is simply incredible and incredible.
“He has this state of mind. And also the fact that he is a great actor is as if his lifestyles were quite unique to succeed at all these levels.”
After Eggerling was with the Upsl team for some time and it was obvious that he could hold his, Caligiuri began to present it to teammates as an actor.
“And the guys don't go” not? ” And then you see the level of acceptance strengthening because it's cool to be an actor, “said Caligiuri.
Tristian Eggerling, 17, football player for the FC and actor of the UPSL OC Sporting, repeats the lines with an acting coach Marnie Cooper in his home in Studio City on January 10.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
Eggerling, who lives in Orange, is not the first person to juggle with theater and football. Andrew Shue (“Melrose Place”, “The Rainmaker”) played five games for the Galaxy in the inaugural season of the MLS while Eric Braeden, who won an Emmy Daytime prize for his representation of the villain Victor Newman on “The Young and The Restless”, led the Maccabee Los Angeles Soccer Club “. “Beetlejuice”), who made her acting as an actor at 10, said that she had almost abandoned Hollywood for football as a scholar.
The acting world, says Eggerling, is much more competitive than football.
“Very brutal,” he said. “It was pleasant and naive in football. Once we started to enter high -end clubs, we were like “it feels familiar”. Because IGRI, (from) Gast-go is extremely competitive. »»
However, for all differences, both can be complementary.
Tristian Eggerling, on the left, trains with his coach Michael Holzer, on the right, at Lexington Park in Cypress on January 7.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
“With football, it is a lot to have a mental tenacity for you. Football taught me to work hard,” he said. “You can obviously apply this to a game.”
His parents were the key to his success. His father the chef monitors his diet and, because Eggerling did not find time to obtain a driving license, his mother, Melissa, transports him to hearings and football training.
“Lots of driving. Put a lot of cars in the grave,” said Christian Eggerling. “It sometimes makes late mornings and nights. And make sure that all the laundry is carried out between the two. ”
Parents say they are also sure that they are not them because they have seen too many children who have been pushed to continue to act or football long after their stop. If Tristian feels this way, they say, it will be his call to leave or stay, not at their.
Melissa Eggerling, on the left, speaks with her son, Tristian Eggerling, center, after having repeated the lines with acting coach Marnie Cooper, right, in her studio city on January 10.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
“You don't want to play another season, I'm good with that,” said Melissa Eggerling. “But you don't stop something in the process because there are other people (involved). He surrounded himself with people who have more and find out more than him, because that's how you are building. This is how you grow.
“You cannot drop the people who support you and are there for you, but you can stop or change speed and do something else, if that's what you want to do.”
Eggerling's next judgment could be England, where he will have to find his own path. After impressive during a test there last summer, he could come back next year to play football and study engineering in Newcastle. Where it would lead him is uncertain, but with his football talents or the silver egg nest that he saved Hollywood funding his college studies, Eggerling is unusually well prepared for the next act.
“The following game is the most important game,” he said, repeating a lesson he learned from Caligiuri. “You never close a door. You always keep your options open.”
