Cubs World Series hero embracing Chicago in retirement as 10-year anniversary of broken curse approaches

This November volition people 10 years since the Chicago Cubs were champions for the archetypal clip successful respective generations.

On Nov. 2, 2016, the Cubs broke a curse that had lasted 108 years, winning their archetypal World Series rubric 4 years earlier the Titanic adjacent sank, and galore members of the squad volition get backmost to Wrigley Field adjacent period to celebrate.

"It's crazy. Time flies. I mean, it was a peculiar team, peculiar run, and it's gonna beryllium amusive to observe it," Anthony Rizzo precocious told Fox News Digital.

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Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo celebrates triumph during Game 7 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians astatine Progressive Field successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected Nov. 2, 2016. (David E. Klutho/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

Now successful retirement, Rizzo, who signed a one-day declaration to discontinue a Cub aft spending astir 4 years with the New York Yankees, has been backmost successful Chicago attending Cubs games and signaling a podcast with erstwhile World Series teammate David Ross. But recently, arsenic the World Cup nears, helium partnered with Abbott and Real Madrid to assistance springiness rising shot stars successful Chicago a accidental to play for the Abbott Dream Team.

The 16 selected antheral and pistillate "Abbott Dream Team" members, ages 18–19, volition question to Spain connected an all‑expenses‑paid travel to bid astatine Real Madrid's authoritative facilities.

"Giving backmost successful the assemblage present successful Chicago means the satellite to me, and these kids getting an accidental to spell to Real Madrid, practice, and bid determination is beauteous special," Rizzo said. "It's a truly chill program, they're some respective leaders successful their industry, bringing unneurotic kids playing soccer, and past harping connected the nutrition broadside of it, arsenic well, means a lot, due to the fact that it takes a batch to get to the adjacent level, and the information that Abbott's drilling these kids with nutrition and the value of it, I deliberation is precise important arsenic well."

Chicago Cubs archetypal baseman Anthony Rizzo celebrates during the team's World Series triumph rally astatine Grant Park successful Chicago, Ill., connected Nov. 4, 2016. (Patrick Gorski/Icon Sportswire)

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"Everyone's talented erstwhile you get to the higher levels, right? Everyone has the talent, but it's the intelligence capacity, it's the small things, and nutrition is, I think, for me, 1 of the astir important things," Rizzo added. "You don't truly spot the results connected the field, but you consciousness you're gonna retrieve better, you're gonna slumber better, you person much energy, truthful taking attraction of your assemblage is precise important, and I fto them cognize that erstwhile you get to a definite level, the endowment level evens out, and it's what separates you from making it, oregon getting that opportunity, oregon being acceptable for that accidental erstwhile it comes."

Rizzo, of course, knows what it takes to get to, and win at, the adjacent level. He recovered the eventual occurrence with that 2016 title, which evidently came with further pressure. But the erstwhile archetypal baseman said that, contempt fans' hopeless tendency for a drought to end, helium was capable to support concern arsenic accustomed successful the World Series successful which helium deed .360 with a 1.084 OPS.

"You don't truly consciousness arsenic overmuch of that weight, due to the fact that you're successful the World Series, you're astatine the highest level, you're 1 of 2 teams standing, right? So, each the drought worldly comes successful connected the outside, and I was lone determination for 5 oregon six years up to that point, so, the erstwhile 102 years ... You conscionable person to, you person to beryllium capable to person position connected it," Rizzo said.

Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo celebrates connected the tract aft signaling the last retired successful the 10th inning to triumph Game 7 and the World Series title against the Cleveland Indians astatine Progressive Field successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected Nov. 2, 2016. (Al Tielemans/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

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"You person to beryllium capable to laughter astir it, and for us, we conscionable kept each the extracurricular sound outside, and we conscionable focused connected what we had to bash to win."

The 2016 Cubs volition stitchery connected July 18, 10 years to the time Rizzo deed a three-run homer disconnected New York Mets pitcher Steven Matz successful a 5-1 triumph to spell to 56-36.

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