{"id":4288,"date":"2015-09-30T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2015-09-30T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T23:05:07","slug":"damon-james-nsa-player-1995-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/?p=4288","title":{"rendered":"Damon James &#8211; NSA player 1995, 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Damon James 9\/28\/2015<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DamonJames-1995.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DamonJames-1995.jpg\" alt=\"DamonJames 1995\" width=\"542\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DamonJames-1995.jpg 542w, https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DamonJames-1995-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHope all is well! Not sure if you remember me but I went on the NSA tours to Europe when I was 10 and 12. I&#8217;m the one 2nd from left in the photos.<br \/>\nl also played in a billion of the 7 v 7 tournaments. The whole NSA experience was very formative for me and was a key factor in my soccer career, which took me through ODP into the National Pool, on to play at UCLA with a scholarship, and then as a semi-pro in Europe until injuries made me give up the game. So for that I want to say thank you because I don&#8217;t believe I would have got that far without NSA!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now a lawyer in Silicon Valley, but having been away from the game too long I have now gotten back into coaching, currently working with U8-U14 boys for Sunnyvale Alliance. I completed an NSCAA National Diploma last year and will be continuing on with my NSCAA degrees this winter in Sacramento and switching over to the USSF track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Damon James 9\/28\/2015 Hope all is well! Not sure if you remember me but I went on the NSA tours to Europe when I was 10 and 12. I&#8217;m the one 2nd from left in the photos. l also played in a billion of the 7 v 7 tournaments. The whole NSA experience was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/?p=4288\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsocceracademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}