Go West, and Grow up Playing Soccer! How do so many internationals play for American Colleges?
About this episode
The episode discusses the trend of European soccer players moving to the United States for college opportunities.
The phrase "go west!" was not coined by the Village People or the Pet Shop Boys, but by Horace Greeley, a famous newspaper editor a long time ago. And seen from Europe, all of the United States is West. So that’s what Luca Puster tells his young European clients who just finish High School and are considering college: Go west young man, and grow up playing football. Or soccer. How do they find American colleges? What makes them come here, what is attractive about this step in their football a...
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