Long after his U-15 team finished training, Luc Granitur was still on a mini pitch, kicking a ball back and forth off the fence. Meanwhile, his father was back in the car, sleeping.
Mike Potempa, the co-founder of the Soccer Institute at Montverde Academy and general manager of Orlando City B, invited Granitur to train with the Orlando City Development Academy U-19s.
Better than kicking against a fence, Potempa figured.
“He came in the session, big, bushy hair,” Potempa recalled. “The first few movements I saw, this kid’s interesting to me.”
Granitur draws lots of interest when he’s on the pitch.