At a very young age, Amro Tarek got the opportunity to move to Germany, a chance he saw to grow as a footballer in a country known to produce some of the best young talent in the European continent. As he looks back to this time period, Tarek knows that this was a time in his career when he learned many things about the game.
“Yeah, I think my first six months were a little bit hard, especially the city I was living in, Magdeburg, Germany,” said Tarek about his time with 1. FC Magdeburg’s U-19. “It’s in east Germany, and they didn’t speak English at all, so the only way to communicate with people was to learn German.