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From a young age, Luke Gomes and his family were cautioned by doctors that playing a sport like soccer could be risky.
Gomes was born with an inner ear condition called enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome, or EVA, which left him with approximately 25 percent of his hearing in his right ear and 75 percent in his left.
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