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How NFL scout Mark Dulgerian scours four continents for talent

When Mark Dulgerian arrived in Munich, Germany, in June 2023, he needed to find a park.

The NFL's lone international scout was in town to try out a German rugby player for the NFL's International Pathway Program. As he did for all of his workouts, Dulgerian preferred to use a flat, grassy area to conduct a series of drills that would decide the player's next steps.

Dulgerian had a problem, though: He had never been to Germany.

He scrolled through Google Maps, hoping to find a grassy area, preferably a soccer field. He quickly realized there were too many to choose from but settled on what looked on his screen like a swath of grass that he hoped would be suitable to put a player through a two-hour tryout.