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Union rookie Rosenberry has always shown leadership skills

'THERE'S THIS kid I think you're going to really like," Zach Samol said.

Samol, an assistant coach at Georgetown, returned from a recruiting trip in 2011 with notes on a handful of players for head coach Brian Wiese to examine. Keegan Rosenberry, who was playing for the Penn Fusion Soccer Academy, was a highlight on the trip.

"(Samol) kept saying, 'You're just going to like him. He does everything right,' " Wiese said. Samol knew the kind of player Wiese was trying to attract at Georgetown: fundamentally sound, with good habits. Rosenberry wasn't the biggest kid, or the strongest, but he had something about him.