Well, some people might know that obviously you lived in Germany for eight years. So is that part of the reason you wanted to go back there and play? Or do you have a lot of connections there or anything like that? Or family?
“I don’t know. I just liked my life better when I was in Germany, so I wanted to go back where I felt happy. And I still get to see my friends, my childhood friends, which was pretty cool. So that’s also got to do with it, why I went to Germany, and why I went to South Germany, cause that’s pretty South. So, yeah, to be close to my old home.”
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Now obviously you’re just beginning your professional career, but you’re also kind of doing double duty here with the U-20 men’s national team for the U.S. And you weren’t born here, as we’ve said. Born in Croatia, and lived in Germany for so long and you’re back there now. But is the U.S. the nation you definitely want to play for? That’s like the, I mean, you’ve lived in Germany more than you’ve lived in the U.S. You were on the U-17s and the U-20s now...
“Uh, yeah that’s true (laughs). But no, I mean. I’ve played. I’ve been with residency, so, I’m an American. I mean, and I’ve worn the crest. And that’s also a thing that, yeah, you have to respect if you wear it once you’re not going to wear another crest. That’d be kind of like backstabbing, I would say. So yeah, I mean. I guess I’m American till the end.”