What Chris Ricards has learned from the MLS

Chris Richards, Alphonse Davies, Christian Pulisic, Giovanni Reyna... all of this names compose the Net Generation of North American soccer players. And although just a few of them have played on the MLS, the have in common that they have all been formed in MLS academies.

In this sense, Bayern Munich defender Chris Richards believes that the value of MLS academies is that they prepare players to be able to perform at the highest level. The Alabama native even believes that he learned how to be professional, take care of his career and his body when he was at FC Dallas academy.

Richards joined FC Dallas in 2017, aged 17. Almost a year later he signed his first professional contract. A month later he was sent together with teammate Thomas Roberts to a ten-day trial at Bayern Munich, where he caught his coaches attention and for that reason he was offered a loan contract of one year to stay at the German giant.

Now, Richards is convinced that his case, together with the careers of other American stand outs, can change the way Europeans look at the MLS. Richards think that within a couple of years the American league will be considered to be very competitive, and he hopes to help other young Americans to be able to  arrive to Europe.