Jamestown, on Conanicut Island in the state of Rhode Island, is one of the USA’s oldest communities. By the time Brett Uttley was growing up there in the 1990s, it had a soccer culture.

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Soccer America Executive Editor Mike Woitalla has written freelance articles about soccer for more than 30 media outlets in nine nations. The winner of eight United Soccer Coaches Writing Contest awards,...