Eight members of the American
team have played professionally in the German first or second division over the last decade, and most of them, a German would be quick to point out, weren't able to survive more than a year or two.
Not exact matches
Messi, named the world's top soccer player five times,
has a long relationship with Barcelona, the only
team he
has played for
professionally since joining the first
team aged 16.
Most started
playing professionally on one of the thousands of semi-pro clubs and company
teams scattered across the country: steel mills and ice creameries offered $ 40 a month plus a job for good arms and hot bats, and every small town in the Midwest seemed to
have its own amateur squad.
Our
teams have players ranging from those who
have never touched a ball to those who
have played professionally.
They
had the kilts
professionally made; leather with embroidered
team logos, as well as the logos of each
team they
've seen
play down the seam.
For over 40 years the club
has produced college soccer athletes at the NCAA Division I, III, III, and NAIA levels along with several Olympic Development Program players (boys and girls) at the District, State, Regional and National
team levels, some of whom
have played professionally, including an Olympic Gold Medalist.
He could
have played football for Knute Rockne, and he did box
professionally,
play for a semi-pro
team against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs and bat.372 and steal 55 bases for Wheeling, W. Va. of the Middle Atlantic League in 1925.
Moving to San Francisco in 1999
has offered the opportunity to stay involved with lacrosse on a number of levels including
playing professionally, coaching a
team at the collegiate level, directing youth camps and clinics, and offering free coaches clinics.
Sustainable = Coaches that
have coached at the collegiate level,
played professionally, coached a high school varsity
team, and college standouts that
have coached a youth program for more than 5 years.
One of only a few players who
have represented three top - flight London Premier League
teams, William Gallas retired from
playing professionally in 2014 after a season
playing the Australian A-League for Perth Glory.
Svensson also
has six caps with the Sweden national
team — most recently last year in a World Cup qualifier — and
has played professionally in Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.
While he dreamed of
playing professionally, he couldn't
have imagined that four years after high school he
would be a rookie player on one of the most dynamic
teams in the NBA, that he
would buy his first house in Utah, and that he
would share his home with two furry companion animals.
A game without a significant luck element involved is almost entirely skill - based — and most of the video games
played professionally, like Starcraft and
Team Fortress II,
have little or no luck component.