Not many Manchester United academy players envision a future in the internationally-maligned arena of Major League Soccer. Not many prospects would jump ship from United’s famed academy in favor of a private school in rural Massachusetts.
Then again, not everyone is Jack Harrison.
Speaking to ESPN FC this March, the second-year NYCFC player expressed no regrets. If anything, it was precisely the opposite.
"I remember a lot of the kids I played with only thought about playing professionally – they had a kind of tunnel vision,” is how Harrison put it.