Twenty-one. That’s how many soccer players will represent the United States at the 2017 Under-20 World Cup in South Korea. Among those are blue chip prospects who have been groomed by some of the finest academies in the world. From Liverpool and Tottenham to the chosen ones of U.S. U-17 residency at Bradenton, some of these kids have been prepping for high level soccer since before they were teenagers. One player among those 21 prospects didn’t walk that normal path to youth national team prominence.
Lagos Kunga is not your typical American soccer story.