While out in the community scouting some local youth teams, Real Salt Lake Academy Director of Coaching Arnold Rijsenburg saw a group of young players that hadn’t come across his desk in his brief time with RSL. Noting their passion, ability and potential, his excitement was palpable when he called RSL Assistant General Manager Tony Beltran without even waiting to leave the field.
That call got the ball rolling on a new partnership between Real Salt Lake and African Stars FC that has taken the leg work out of so much of the logistics that can hamper developmental squads.