Host Dan Walker talks to Bolton midfielder Stuart Holden about dealing with injury, Bolton’s chances of avoiding relegation, and Fabrice Muamba’s recovery from a cardiac arrest.

WILMINGTON, Del. — Stuart Holden‘s face is turning purple. Below the carefully cultivated dark-blond hair with trademark frosted tips, which often gets him mistaken for ’90s teenybopper Aaron Carter, his small features crunch up.

The Bolton and U.S. midfielder is laying on his side, getting his healing left knee worked on by longtime U.S. national team physio James Hashimoto in his Elite PT practice. (Don’t be fooled by the name; it’s an unpretentious place, stowed away in the basement of an inconspicuous community center on the outskirts of town.) “I’ll send a picture of my T-shirt to Nigel de Jong,” Holden jokes in between stretches, smiling through the strain. Marked Man, reads the shirt, which was white until he spilled coffee on it earlier in the morning.

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