D1 Recruit chooses soccer over football

beejus

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If he was gonna see any of that top 20 soccer money he woulda been playing on a champions league level team already

Oh I know that.

Think of how many kids think they'll make it big in the pros only to fade into obscurity before they even make money. Chances are he has no future in soccer at all.

Unless he's after that MLS money.
 

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wish best for the kid
he might be like jeff samardzija always wondering "what if i chose football"
 

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IDK about this. If he was the equivalent of a 4 star prospect in soccer he would already be signed to a major european team :patrice:
I see what you are saying BUT not too many European scouts in rural America. If he does well in college he can make MLS, get noticed for national team, and after that sky is the limit. Not easy but not impossible
 

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:wtf: He must be Jamaican with all these jobs
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Dude has options. Look at those kids from Africa who don't grow up playing basketball. Here in America, we send kids to basketball camp to improve their skills, sign them up to play in elite travel leagues, put them in private prep school, and it's all expensive. Noel Embiid... is tall and athletic and became a first round draft pick. :dahell:
As for football, an injury can take you out of sports forever. Soccer, you can play into your late 30s. And your options are wider, big money pro leagues in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and MLS. Football, it's just the NFL or you can take an L and play in the CFL.
 

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Good for him. Do what you wanna do, as long as it aint JUST for the money. If my body could perform up to that level, there aint a single thing I'd rather do than be a corner or safety in the league. LAWD it would be fun to be part of a top defense.
 
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