Five players on the No. 15 Loyola men’s soccer team’s 25-man roster (11-1-1, 4-0-1) are from countries outside the United States: Elliot Collier and Jordan Valentic-Holden from New Zealand, and Fabian Lifka, Marius Kullmann and Matthieu Braem from France. Those players are among 12 international athletes walking around Loyola’s campus.
Collier, a junior forward, is from Hamilton, New Zealand, and came to the United States to play soccer for the Ramblers. He said he attended a soccer academy in his home country before coming to Loyola but that the sport is played with a different style here in the States.