Two years ago, George Bello was showing out on the training field—clearly standing out among his peers with his delicate touch, darting movements and pinpoint passes. Except Bello wasn’t training on the fields of his youth academy club, the Alpharetta Ambush, nor his hometown of Douglasville.
No, he was thousands of miles away trialing at Premier League club Everton and Serie A’s Genoa.
“Within an hour of seeing him, they both wanted to sign him. He was the best player on the pitch,” said Bello’s former coach and mentor David Estravi, recalling how he watched with bemusement from the sidelines.