There was pushback, naturally. Skepticism. 

The Freeses are scientists, after all, not goalkeepers. They attend prestigious schools. They are biologists and physicists. The patriarch was a neurosurgeon who won awards as a pioneer in gene therapy.

Yet Matt Freese, a Harvard man, only desired to stop soccer balls from hitting a net.

“There were some arguments,” Freese said in an interview with The Post. “There were some tough times.”