WINTER GARDEN, Fla. \u2014 Ten-year-old soccer player Lorenzo Rodriguez will play internationally this summer as Stars Academy’s 11-and-under team in Winter Garden travels to Paris for a tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt, like, clears my mind off of everything, and it\u2019s like, really fun. I get to play with my friends while I\u2019m doing it,\u201d said Rodriguez, who started playing soccer at age 5.<\/p>\n
The left wing has won back-to-back Most Valuable Player honors for his team.<\/p>\n
Before the trip to Paris, he trained with his skills coach, Dane Bernard.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s having a lot of fun, especially the fact that he\u2019s seeing the results,\u201d Bernard said. \u201cA lot of it has to do with the foundation that was set at Stars Academy. He\u2019s been working hard, and he continues to work hard, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rodriguez\u2019s time in Europe will continue after the Paris tournament. He was also asked to play with another academy team from Jacksonville, and his trip abroad will span 24 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope to go pro and play with Barcelona and play with USA to the national team to win a World Cup,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
When Rodriguez returns to Central Florida, Bernard said his focus will remain on his technical development.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to keep working on this technical development. He\u2019s going to keep working and getting stronger and faster. And we\u2019re going to pray for the best,\u201d Bernard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER GARDEN, Fla. \u2014 Ten-year-old soccer player Lorenzo Rodriguez will play internationally this summer as Stars Academy’s 11-and-under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25817,23578,34765,6,34766,229,30,193,34767,7,1066,2519,25816],"class_list":["post-54219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-paris","tag-soccer","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}