How did you get started with soccer?

My dad played soccer, so he taught me how to play when I was really young. Three to four years old is when I started.

How has soccer made a difference in your life?

I’ve become a better person, it’s taken me really cool places, and it’s allowing me to see part of the world that I wouldn’t see being a non-soccer player. I’ve been able to meet some really cool people and I’ve met some really cool friends through playing soccer, and they’ve become part of my family and I’m hoping to go to college with some of them, so that’s really cool. It’s basically my life now. It’s all that I do.

Why did you decide to continue soccer?

I became really good at it, and I found out that you can really live off it, and that it can become your profession and that’s what I’m hoping to do one day, so that’s why I continued to play, and I love it a lot, so I couldn’t imagine my life without it.

What does being on the national team mean to you?

It means I’m one of the best players in the country in my age, which is always an honor. I’m actually one of the only sophomores on the team, so I’m still pretty young compared to all the other ones but it means that I’m still one of the best, and it’s a really cool honor to have to play for your country.

Opinion of the Indy Eleven?

“It’s pretty cool, I’m excited to have a professional team in Indiana, I mean, it’s going to make people like soccer a lot more and understand the game a lot more, and that’s what I’m hoping for. I hope they do well, and hopefully everything turns out the way it should.”

What comments or thoughts would you like to share with readers, if any?

I’d encourage them to learn more about soccer, I know it’s not really that big in the U.S., but it’s coming along and I’d encourage people to really do their research and learn about it because it’s a really cool sport and it brings lots of people together.