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An American at Man Utd: Matt Olosunde ready to break into Red Devils' first team

The 19-year-old fullback is set to embark on his second season with Manchester United and has aspirations of playing for the club's senior side

Matt Olosunde's budding soccer career has been built around a series of journeys in search of better competition. Each new one much longer than the previous one. The quest has taken Olosunde from New Jersey to England for an opportunity he could only have dreamed of when he was a youngster.

Olosunde is the latest American to ply his trade at Manchester United, one of the world's biggest clubs and a place where making the jump from youth prospect to first-teamer isn't easy.