Unless you’re an Atlanta United fan who also happens to regularly watch Watford Academy matches, you may not have heard much about one of Atlanta United’s offseason additions. But he’s heard plenty about Atlanta United fans.
“I’m very excited to hear the fans,” he says with a smile from ear to ear.
The truth is Dion Pereira doesn’t watch much soccer on television at all aside from Barcelona games, so an MLS side wasn’t on his radar. But there was one clip on Atlanta United’s social media that caught his eye.
“The first time I saw it at all was actually a clip of Josef scoring a penalty, it was just a wild technique I had never seen before.