colleges and football players from Europe

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<p>I’d just knock on the door of the coach’s office, walk in and say, “I’m from Germany and I can play football, too.”<br>
–NC State’s Markus Kuhn</p>

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Their first stop was Division I-AA Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., which offered Kuhn a scholarship on the spot. Then they went to Division I-AA Richmond, which also showed sincere interest in him. “We were like, ‘OK, let’s try some bigger schools,’” Kuhn said. So they drove further south and visited Duke, East Carolina, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia. </p>

<p>“Everybody was kind of shocked,” Kuhn said. “I’d just knock on the door of the coach’s office, walk in and say, ‘I’m from Germany and I can play football, too.’ The coaches gave me weird looks, but they were all really nice. They figured if I’d spent so much time and money coming from Germany they could at least look at my DVD.”

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<p>(From an interesting column about European football players at U.S. colleges.)</p>

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“I think colleges are going to get overseas and start recruiting European players,” Rydstedt said. “Schools like Duke and Stanford have such high academic standards they have a very limited pool of players they can recruit. Why not go overseas and expand that pool?”

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<p>[ESPN</a> - European players hoping colleges expand their recruiting pool](<a href=“LIVE Transfer Talk: Premier League clubs battle for Osimhen - ESPN”>European players hoping colleges expand their recruiting pool - ESPN)</p>