America’s sport, where everyone crowds around the television or checks updates on their phone or has a fantasy team about, is what one calls “football”. There’s a quarterback, running backs, tight ends, etc.

 Go to England and start talking about a quarterback in football, one might get some strange looks. Go to America and start talking about the goalie in football, one might receive the same strange look.

That’s exactly what happened to a new member of the “football” or rather soccer team this season on his trip to America from England.  NC State welcomed true freshmen Ollie Kelly and Simon Cox this season and the midfielder and defensive man have already made a tremendous impact to the squad.

“On the plane over here I told a man that I was coming to America to play football; he looked at as if I was too small to play football,” Cox said. “If I go to England and call it ‘soccer’ I will get made fun of, same as when I call it ‘football’ long.”

Both athletes are majoring in sports management at NC State so far and are adjusting to the schedule between soccer and school. At home they would take lessons and have class all day for one day and the rest of the week would be focused on practicing and learning more about the game of soccer.

Adjustments are made no matter what country you go to. Everything down to the climate is somewhat different especially if you are not used to the humidity in North Carolina. Cox learned that within the first couple of days.

“At first I was not drinking a lot of water but now I need to drink like gallons of water,” Kelly said. “It’s much hotter here than England so the sport is a little bit slower here because in England you can sprint all out but in America you have to conserve your energy away from the