“This is the club that, when the fields weren’t grass, when they were dust, we were all out there kicking it around and it’s just humble beginnings. Growing up, unless I went to, I don’t know, New Haven or Manhattan or out there in Long Island, I was just around Caribbean families from Jamaicans to Trinidadians to Guyanese, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, everyone. It’s just a really humble place to be and to grow up, I think, as a kid. We grew up around a lot of love, a lot of good energy. On the weekends when school’s done, we’d go out to Rosedale soccer field and we’d have cookouts, we’d play music.”
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