Will Little (soccer player)

Will Little
Personnel
Surname	William Little III
birthday	April 9, 1998
place of birth	Johnson City ,  Tennessee , USA
size	170 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2009	ETSF
2010	Fusion FC
2011–2012	FC Alliance
2013-2015	Science Hill High School
2015-2016	Sporting Kansas City
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2016–	→  Swope Park Rangers / Sporting Kansas City II  (farm team)	28 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 4, 2020

William "Will" Little III (born April 9, 1998 in Johnson City , Tennessee ) is an American football player on the position of midfielder . Since 2016 he has been playing for Sporting Kansas City II , the farm team of the major league soccer franchise Sporting Kansas City , who also play in the third-rate North American United Soccer League .

Career

Career start in Tennessee

Will Little was born on April 9, 1998 in Johnson City, Tennessee, where he grew up and began his football career. He started his career as a child at the local youth training association ETSF in his hometown of Johnson City, where he was last active in 2009 for the U-12 / U-13 team. He then moved to Bristol , Tennessee, about 40 kilometers away , for a year , where he was now a member of Fusion FC , which is active there . That year 2010, he also received an invitation to Thanksgiving Interregional , a US Youth Soccer Region III Boys Olympic Development Program tournament in Orlando , Florida , in which he competed with a '97 White team in late November . At this point he was already a member of the '97 -ODP Tennessee State Team and the '97 -ODP Region III pool . In 2011 he joined the FC Alliance in Knoxville , Tennessee, about 180 km away , where he was most recently a member of the '98 Black team. That year he was also a member of the '98 -ODP-Tennessee State Team and the '98 -ODP-Region-III-Pool and was invited as a member to an interregional event in Chula Vista , California at the end of November . Furthermore, he was selected to represent the '98 -ODP-Region-III-Team on the International Tour in Guadalajara , Mexico at the end of April 2012 .

In 2012 he became Region III Premier League champion . In 2012 and 2013, he won the Tennessee Division One state championship title with the FC Alliance '98 Black team in the U-14 (2012) and U-15 (2013) categories. The then 14-year-old was already a member of the U-15 ODP Holdover Region III team in July 2012 , before he started his time at Science Hill High School , one of the largest high schools in the entire state of Tennessee, in the spring of 2013 . started. There he was a member of the first school team ( varsity team ) in his freshman year and was traded as a second team all district in the same year . As a sophomore, he was the Science Hill from the local newspaper Johnson City Press the midfielder of the year 2014 chosen. That same year he was also a member of the Tennessee All State Soccer Team in the Top Division AAA Classification and was part of the All District Tournament Team and the All Region Team that year . Further individual successes in his early career as a football player were elections for the First-Team-All-Conference , First-Team-All-County , First-Team-All-Region , First-Team-All-Area and First-Team-All -State . He was also a Conference Champion , Sectional Champion , Regional Champion , third place at the Tennessee State Championships, and with his high school soccer team among the top 25 high school teams in the United States.

Move to Kansas City

In 2015 he was selected by the Academy of Major League Soccer franchises Sporting Kansas City recorded, where he became under former Hungarian national team István Urbányi , who in the late 1980s at the side of the Sporting Kansas City head coach Peter Vermes in Győri ETO FC played in the U-16 team. With the team from Kansas City , Missouri , he then took part in the MLS Generation Adidas Cup , which took place from the end of March to the beginning of April 2015 , in which U-16 teams were represented by MLS teams and international youth teams. Within a very short time, Little worked his way up to the U-18 team, which was also looked after by the Hungarian Urbányi. In the 2015/16 season he was used for this in a total of 19 league and cup games, 14 of which he was on the pitch from the start. He scored eight goals, seven of them in the league, and prepared another eight goals for his teammates. He was the second best goalscorer of his team behind the Nigerian Nansel Selbol . After leaving high school in 2015 and instead attending the Academy of Sporting Kansas City, he ended his time there the following year in 2016 and switched to the recently founded USL franchise Swope Park Rangers (since 2020 Sporting Kansas City II ) , which exists as a farm team alongside Sporting Kansas City. There he made his professional league debut under Canadian coach Marc Dos Santos on April 10, 2016 , when Kris Tyrpak came onto the pitch in the 1-1 away draw against the also new San Antonio FC from the 69th minute of the game . He then came to three more short assignments until the beginning of May 2016, before there were no more assignments in the following months. In 2016, TopDrawerSoccer.com listed him as one of the top 150 players in the final class of 2016.

Web links

• Will Little in the soccerway.com database
• Will Little on ncsasports.org (English)
• Will Little on the official Sporting Kansas City website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Will Little III on TopDrawerSoccer.com , accessed July 19, 2016