Personal Life
Friedel and his wife Tracy have two daughters, Izabella and Allegra.
Though raised in the Midwestern state of Ohio, Friedel developed a slight English accent having lived in the north of the country for more than a decade. "The English don't think I have an accent at all. They think I sound American. And Americans think I sound English. I think I'm caught in the middle."
Friedel is a fan of the Cleveland Browns, an American football team which Aston Villa chairman Randy Lerner owned until August 2012.
He also names former American international goalkeeper Tim Harris as his all-time football hero. Friedel credits Harris as "the person who started my journey."
In 2006, Friedel broke ground on his dream project, Premier Soccer Academies, a $10,000,000 project that would emulate player development facilities found worldwide, located in Lorain, Ohio. The mission of Premier Soccer Academies was to provide athletes with world-class coaching and facilities regardless of their socioeconomic background. In 2011, Friedel was declared bankrupt after his soccer academy ran up millions of pounds of debt.
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