Four years ago, Luis Robles didn’t know if he’d ever play again.
After five-and-a-half years in Germany, Robles decided to return home in January 2012. He’d had moderate success on the field, but seven different head coaches and three different sporting directors in his final 18 months in the 2. Bundesliga had taken their toll. Robles was yo-yoing in and out of the lineup, and some difficult personal circumstances – he and his wife, Cara, had endured a miscarriage and Cara’s father had been diagnosed with cancer – meant it was time to come back to the US.