“It’s hard to describe. You dream about it almost your whole life and then what it actually comes - you almost can’t believe it."
"To be able to play for the team in my own city in front of all of these people I grew up around, it’s really an amazing feeling to give something back now."
We moved to Bushwick, Brooklyn. It was very different from how it is now. I got to see it change a great amount. We would go to this park only two blocks away from my house and we could get a soccer ball and just kick it around on the grass.