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more success in academics. It’s kind of weird, as a kid, you feel like you’re a failure if you don’t become a footballer, [and] as you grow up, you start to realize there’s a little more to life than just soccer.
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DeKALB | Richard Hall, senior
men’s soccer defender, was born in Billericay, England, and has played soccer for the Huskies since 2013. Hargis: Being from England, you grew up with soccer as a part of your life. I’m assuming you consider it a primary sport? Hall: Yeah. I was playing soccer, football as its known back in my hometown, since I was 5 years old. It’s something that I played, all my friends played. It’s the equivalent of putting basketball and American football together here, that’s the equivalent of the exposure it has back home. Your Atlee Hargis | Northern Star friends talk about it whenever Richard Hall, senior men’s soccer defender, was born in Billericay, England, you’re growing up; your parents and began playing for the Huskies in 2013. take you to games; it’s on TV 24/7, and it’s on the radio. You I started to think ‘where can I be as and defend you, so it’s a position can’t really escape it. effective on the pitch?’ where you can run from deep, come into the final third and Hargis: Being that you’ve played Hargis: So, with the outside back pretty much be free quite a few soccer your entire life, you prob- position, you’ve got that mix of at- times. If you’re clever about using ably moved around the field a little tacking and defending ability. it, it can really be used as a key bit, but now you’re here as a de- Hall: Out of all of the positions position for the team, which I try fender. Is defender the position you in the modern game, that’s the to utilize every single time. typically played? one that has really come on. If Hall: Growing up I was always quite you look at 20 to 30 years ago, Hargis: Every kid who plays a sport bigger. I haven’t really grown since the outside back primarily was has those aspirations of perhaps 14 year old, so if you can, imagine just a defender. It was just an- going professional, is that the same me at 5 foot 8 inches tall when I was other glorified center back. Now, for you? that age. you could argue that your out- Hall: Yeah, as a kid I wanted to side backs are one of the biggest play football. Yeah, I wanted to be Hargis: Very imposing, I’m sure. points of attack. It’s your release a professional; I wanted to be the Hall: Right. So I played kind of point; if you’re on one side of the people I saw on TV. As I’ve grown center of the pitch, center midfield pitch and you’re getting domi- up, I’ve kind of been more realistic and center back, just because I was nated, your release point is to with it, as I’ve gotten to college and a bigger player. But as everyone else get out to the other outside back things like that. There’s still opporcaught up to me, I had to be moved who’s wide and attack from there. tunities that I might be able to go to a more suitable position. And to It’s a position where you can run and play semi-professionally back be honest, my speed and body type from deep and you’re not really home to earn a little bit of money suits more of an outside back defend- picked up. The outside midfielder and carry on playing. As for a caer. From the age of 14 to 15 and on, doesn’t always want to track back reer? I feel like I’m going to have
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Hargis: Right. Hall: It would be fantastic if I could be a professional soccer player and go and earn millions and millions [of dollars]. The reality is, my academics are stronger, and at the moment, that’s probably where I’m going to be more successful.
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Hargis: And that was in the Blue Square South? Hall: At that point in time they were in the Conference Blue Square South. Unfortunately, we got relegated that year — dropped to a lower tier because of poor team performance — and I went out to America. Playing men’s soccer really exposes you to the reality of what football is all about. It’s not always glorious and it’s not always perfect soccer. In those leagues, anyone who’s watched them and played in them knows that you’ve got to tackle and take a tackle.
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Hargis: You played for Leyton Orient, a soccer club in Leyton, England. Its first team plays in League Two of the English Football League. How was that? Hall: I was at Leyton Orient from, I think U-14 to U-16s. From U-16s, I was training two or three times a week and at the end of the season they offer you a scholarship to go full-time. I, unfortunately, didn’t get offered a scholarship, which meant I went back to my hometown club, which is semi-professional. I didn’t actually get paid for any of it, but I was in the youth team for my hometown club, and I got moved up as a 17-year-old into the first team.
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