Category: BIOGRAPHIES

Shaq Moore comes from a football family with deep connections to both the United States and Trinidad and Tobago. The American right-back, whose full name is Shaquell Kwame Moore, grew up surrounded by relatives who understood competitive soccer long before he became a United States international and Major League Soccer player. His father, Wendell Moore, […]

Lalas Abubakar comes from a Ghanaian family that placed considerable importance on education while he pursued his dream of becoming a professional footballer. Born on December 25, 1994, in Kumasi and raised mainly in Accra, the defender left Ghana as a young man to study and play soccer in the United States, eventually establishing a […]

Osaze Urhoghide comes from a Nigerian family whose journey took him from the Netherlands to England before football eventually carried him across several European countries and to Major League Soccer. Born on July 4, 2000, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, the FC Dallas defender moved to England when he was five years old and spent much of […]

Geovane Jesus has built his professional football career while also taking on significant responsibilities as a husband and father. The Brazilian defender, whose full name is Geovane de Jesus Rocha, was born on July 31, 2001, in Bahia and rose through Brazilian football before making his name with Cruzeiro and later moving to the United […]

Jonathan Sirois comes from a close-knit Quebec family that supported his development from youth soccer in Saint-Hubert to professional football. Born on June 27, 2001, in LaSalle, Quebec, the Canadian goalkeeper spent much of his childhood in Saint-Hubert before joining the Montreal Impact, now CF Montréal, Academy in 2015. Sirois eventually established himself as one […]

Michael Collodi comes from a strongly athletic family that played an important role in his journey from youth soccer in North Texas to becoming a professional goalkeeper. Born on May 25, 2001, in Plano, Texas, Collodi grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and developed through the FC Dallas system before playing college soccer at […]

Ryan Richter is an American former professional soccer player and coach who serves as interim head coach of Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer. Born on April 13, 1989, and raised in Southampton, Pennsylvania, Richter has spent much of his life connected to soccer in the Philadelphia region, first as a player and later as […]

Sal Olivas is an American-Mexican professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer. Born on July 11, 2006, in El Paso, Texas, Olivas followed an unusual route into professional soccer, developing largely outside the traditional elite club system before Philadelphia Union discovered him as a teenager. Family has […]