The US may have failed to qualify for this summer’s World Cup but interest in the Premier League is as strong as ever as the new season approaches
As a midfielder at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, Kyle Martino was named the top high school player in the United States, and he earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Virginia. As much as he loved soccer, and as good as he was at the sport, he still had to scramble to watch matches on television.
“I grew up struggling to find the game on television,” says Martino, who is now 37 and a studio analyst of Premier League coverage on NBC, which begins Friday with a match at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Leicester City. “I would watch it in Spanish, do whatever I could to breathe it. It was definitely on the periphery of the sporting landscape.”
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