Ollie Shannon and Vertex Soccer work to offer players rejected from academies the chance to play and learn in the US
For young football players who have sometimes dedicated more than 10 years of their lives to playing in the youth setup at professional clubs, it all rests on one final decision.
“I’d made it through every single age group, and I was the only player in my block that did that, but ultimately didn't get a pro deal at 18,” Shannon told the ECHO. The seed about what the potential for a new path had been planted for Shannon, and his four successful years spend at Clemson would provide the springboard for what would become a new path in his career, one that would seek out similar opportunities for talented teens that had been left with the feeling of hopelessness that can come with rejection.
What he learned would shape the future of his career off the pitch, one that would impact many young players on it. “I came back to Europe and had multiple trials in Scotland and England, but I just didn't get anything. After college he played in the USL, the professional US league that sits under the MLS, turning out for the Long Island Rough Riders and FC New York, before he headed home for brief stints in the lower echelons of English football with Mansfield Town, Boston United, and Hednesdford Town.
Sign up to The Bottom Line newsletter Sign up to our new weekly newsletter, the Bottom Line, which will bring you exclusive reporting on the financial issues affecting the future of football. “So, we have this huge trust, and with that, we want to make sure that wherever we send players to, if they have problems, we want them to know that they can approach their manager or their coach in their system, as well as having us there as support.
“Third is location. That's a big one. I mean, I'll laugh and joke about this because a lot of them don't even know that it snows in New York. Many automatically say that they want to go to New York and then when they realise that there's two or three feet of snow for weeks of the year it changes their minds.
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