Former High School wide receiver Drake Davis, could be the first of many “All-American” athletes to switch from American football to soccer in the coming years. Photo provided by 247 Sports.
According to 247 Sports, this young man who is the number 10 ranked wide receiver in the nation and the number three in Virginia in the 2016 class is dropping from his football team at Fork Union Military Academy, in VA to concentrate on his soccer career.
Now just because Davis is a 6’5 athlete does not make him a guarantee soccer hit or that he will one day become a player for the USMNT, but the fact that he choose soccer is a win for the growing sport in the United States.
Even though the dream for US Soccer is to start grooming players of his abilities at the ages of nine or younger, but they will gladly start accepting athletes like Davis to the fold within the blink of an eye.