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Mathis Albert, the 16-year-old playmaker currently with the USA’s U-17 World Cup team, will be promoted to Borussia Dortmund’s first team this summer, according to Sport Bild

The German sports weekly reported that it knows BVB’s bosses’ “secret plans” for the tri-national who played youth soccer for Carolina Elite SA-Greenville in his native South Carolina, the San Diego Surf and the LA Galaxy Academy.

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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,...