Pro Soccer Players Kick Start New Youth Club
Soccer players Sean Rush and Santino Quaranta are working to develop a nonprofit organization.
Young fans of "the beautiful game" will have the opportunity to be trained alongside professional soccer players this spring with the startup of a new youth club in the region. When it’s time to hang up the cleats, professional footballers often remain active in the sport in some capacity. But international footballer Sean Rush and D.C. United sensation Santino Quaranta don’t want to wait until the end of their careers to share their skills. The pair have been working for the past few months to develop a new nonprofit youth soccer organization—while still in the prime of their respective careers. It’s a rare move for players to devote so much time and energy to “giving back” to the would-be soccer stars of tomorrow while still nurturing …
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