Eric Klenofsky is a former NYRB U-23s player, born in Staten Island, raised in New Jersey, educated at De Paul Catholic in Wayne and Monmouth University: he's spent most of his life in the New York Red Bulls' back yard. But he was a highly-rated goalkeeper coming out of college, and perhaps even more so when he was invited to trial with Everton in December. The trial was extended - a compliment in itself - though, as he told Big Apple Soccer's Michael Lewis at the MLS Combine, it didn't work out in the end:
Work permits are not easy to get especially when you're not U.