“If I could do things again, I would have tried to go sooner to Europe and had my mom or dad go with me. Now you see a young player who’s 15 or 16 leave for Europe and have that chance to train inthat environment and get into that football culture. That is so important. Those are the things that I would have like to have known before. I didn’t have the knowledge at that age.”
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