How to Become a Professional Footballer

Jacob Bushue is a 27-year-old American soccer player currently playing for FC Haka in the Finnish Premier League. Jacob played his college soccer at the Indiana University for the Hoosiers. In 2015, Jacob signed for St. Louis FC in the USL. After playing there for one year, he decided that it was time to chase his dream in Europe. Jacob bought a one way flight to Scandanavia where he went on trial...

Simon Gefvert is a 22-year old outside back or winger currently playing for IK Sirius in the Allsvenskan (Swedish First Tier). Though, it hasn’t been an easy road for Simon. He has had to go through a lot of ups and downs and work very hard to get to where he has gotten. Last year, he was playing in Sweden’s Division One (Third Tier) and after an excellent season, he made a jump two leagues. Simon...

Sheldon Tweedie is a 22 -year-old Center Attacking Midfielder or Winger who is from Australia currently pursuing a professional contract in England. Sheldon has been on a journey to sign his first professional contract for about 2.5 years now, and he does a great job depicting the journey through his famous YouTube channel. Within that channel, you will find a true and transparent guy who shows hi...

Sidney Rivera is a 26-year-old Professional Footballer currently playing as a Forward for the Bangladesh Police in the Bangladesh Premier League. Sidney played college soccer at Old Dominion University. In 2015, after a successful senior season, Sidney got drafted by Orlando City of the MLS. After not being given the, he was loaned briefly to Louisville City of the USL Championship. After Louisvil...

Jack Blake is a 25 year old center midfielder who is currently playing for the Real Monarchs in the USL Championship (2nd Tier in the US). Jack is originally from Nottingham, England. He grew up since the age of 9 in the prestigious Nottingham Forest Academy. After having trouble breaking into the first team, he went on loan to Mansfield Town in 2013, and made his pro debut at 17 in League Two. Af...

Jake Rozhanksy is a 23 year old Professional Footballer who plays as a winger for Hapoel Afula in the Liga Leumit (second tier) in Israel. Jake is originally from Germantown, Maryland. He played 1 year of college soccer at the University of Virginia before transferring to Maryland University to finish up his college career. Jake had a great career in college as a footballer, and enjoyed himself on...

Matt Sheldon is a 27-year-old Professional Footballer originally from Portland, Oregon who is playing for FC Tulsa in the USL Championship (2nd Tier in the US). In 2016, Matt signed his first professional contract with the OC Blues in the USL after a short 6 month stint in Germany. After a good season with OC, he signed a contract with Saint Louis FC in the USL. After a good start to the season, h...

Michael Hartmann is a 25-year-old Professional Goalkeeper originally from New Jersey, who is currently playing in the Finnish 1st Tier (Veikkausliiga) for FC Haka. Mike played 4 years of college soccer at Caldwell University in the NCAA Division 2 in America. After spending 4 years, he got a chance to go out to Norway to chase his dream of being a professional. Unfortunately due to work permit iss...

Samuel Kroon is a 23 year old professional footballer playing as a winger who plays for Halmstads BK in the Superettan (Swedish Second Tier). Samuel is originally from Stockholm, Sweden, where he grew up playing. He was constantly looking for ways to make himself better and develop himself as a player to get to the next level. Samuel started his professional career in the lower leagues of Sweden....

Zev is a 26-year-old Center Midfielder originally from Malibu, California who is currently playing for Åtvidabergs FF. Zev played his college soccer at Valparaiso in Indiana before he signed his first pro contract with the Sacramento Republic in the USL after impressing at an open combine. Zev made a couple of moves throughout the USL before signing his first contract in Sweden in 2018 with Varber...

One of the best conversations I have ever had with a great dude. Jared is a 24-year-old defensive midfielder or center back originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he grew up playing academy soccer. He started his college career at Georgetown in 2013, where he stayed for one season before transferring to Wake Forest University. In 2017, Jared signed his first pro contract with the Charlot...

Conor O’Keefe is a 24 year old goalkeeper originally from Macclesfield, England, who is currently playing for Europa Point FC in the Gibraltar Premier League. Conor spent most of his footballing career in England, with a stint as well in Madrid Spain. As he finished off his youth team contract with Macclesfield, he took the opportunity to study and play football at the prestige Loughborough Univer...

Andrew is a 25 year old keeper originally from Liverpool, England. He grew up in the Liverpool Academy before moving to play at Macclesfield Town, where he signed his first pro contract. Unfortunately, he was released from Macclesfield when his 18 month contract ran out. After that at 18, he thought it was his time to hang up his boots. Eventually he found out about an opportunity in Sweden throug...

Steven Enna is a 24 year old striker originally from Kansas City, Missouri who is currently playing in the 1st Division (Second Tier) in Denmark for FC Fredericia. Steven grew up playing in the Sporting Kansas City academy and played his college soccer at Drake University. Steven earned his Master’s while at Drake, but Steven wanted more from the game. Steven always knew he wanted to play professi...

Darius is a 19 year old originally from Miami, Florida playing professionally in the Faroe Islands as a winger or a “10.” He always knew deep inside his heart that he would sign a professional contract. That being said, it wasn’t easy, he went through many trials and tribulations. He wasn’t sure if his dream was going to come to a reality but he kept putting in the work. Eventually he found out ab...

Great to have a good friend and one of the hardest workers that I’ve ever met back on the podcast. Andrew is a 24 year old Central Midfielder originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He just finished his season in the USL League One with the Chattanooga Red Wolves in Tennessee. In this podcast, we go into great depths about the mental side of the game, and how to handle failures, deal with obstacles and...

Kaelon is a 24 year old centerback originally from Atlanta, Georgia who just finished up his 1st year as a professional in Iceland. Deservingly enough, he was named the player of the year. After undergoing many “no’s” and many hard times, he could have easily quit, but NO, he persisted and kept working. He knew what he wanted. He wanted to sign a professional contract and after many hard months, t...

Kyle McLagan is a 23 year old professional footballer originally from Kansas City, Missouri who is currently playing in the first league (second tier) in Denmark for FC Roskilde, and is currently in his second season with the team. His journey was quite a special one, and it just shows that if you know where you want to go and you have the goal in mind, and you do everything in your power to get t...

Eric is a 23 year old striker/winger who is originally from St. Louis. He is currently playing for JK Trans Narva in the Estonian Premier League. Before this year, he played for 2 years at Xavier University and 2 years at UMKC. After being recognized at the PSC combine, he got two offers to play professionally; one in Malta and the other in Estonia, which he jumped on right away. In his first year...

George is a 27 year old center midfielder who is currently playing for Hapoel Hadera in the Israeli Premier League. George played college soccer at Uconn before getting drafted to the Portland Timbers in the 2014 MLS Superdraft. George featured with the Timbers and Sacramento Republic during his time in the United States (2014-2015). In 2016, got some interest from a club in Denmark while playing...

This years’ 1st round, 14th draft pick Akeem Ward comes on the Pod to discuss how he lives his day to day life with DC United, a team that he grew up supporting and working as the ball boy. Akeem played one year at the JUCO level for Hastings before transferring to Creighton and playing 3 years there. These 3 years at Creighton were a wake up call for him. He realized he had to step his game up an...

Leo Folla is a 23 year old Centerback originally from New York who is currently playing for the Chattanooga Red Wolves in the newly formed USL League One. He has had quite the journey up until his first professional contract with the Red Wolves. Leo grew up playing his youth soccer in New York. After getting rejected from University at Albany after high school, he took it in the chin and tried his...

Was great having Jason Johnson on the Podcast. He is a 28 year old winger from Happy News, Jamaica who is currently playing for Phoenix Rising FC in the USL. Jason played for 3 years at VCU before being drafted to the Houston Dynamo. After that, he went on to play for the Chicago Fire, San Antonio FC and now the Phoenix Rising. Surprisingly enough, Jason started playing the game at the age of 14....

Kevin Politz is a 23 year old defender from New Jersey who is currently playing for the Greenville Triumph in South Carolina. He spent 4 years studying and playing at Wake Forest. After graduating he signed his first professional contract with the New York Red Bulls. In this episode, he shares some very very interesting insights into how the Red Bulls train and how they look at training, and the d...