Ahead of El Clásico, Sarthak Kumar talks about US Club Soccer's partnership with La Liga with its CEO, Kevin Payne.
What, or who, inspired you to play soccer while growing up?
There was very little youth soccer in the area I grew up in the NY suburbs in the late 1950’s and 60’s. My first real exposure was watching the 1966 World Cup final on TV — I think it was the old Wide World of Sports show — and my friends and I started playing our version of the game in my backyard.