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As the writer of a Football blog (real Football, not fake American Hand Egg which I have to clarify quite often after people ask me how I think the Patriots will do this year) I'm always on the search for new talent so I can brag and say I was there on the first day, and my journey today brings me to the town of Duluth Minnesota on the hunt for a one C.J. Szydlowski.<br><br>My first stop was at the Szydlowski family home where I was greeted by C.J.'s mother Mary, she was the one who had reached out and asked if I could do a story on her son, at first I was hesitant but when I learned it wasn't very far out of the way from someone else I was going to check out I figured it was worth a shot. She told me she wasn't sure where C.J. was but that he'd probably be back soon. I figured I'd use this chance to learn a little more about C.J. and how he got to where he is.<br><br>When did C.J. first start to play and why?<br>"As a kid he really idolized our neighbor's son who was on the local college's hockey team, C.J. had always said he wanted to be a hockey player back then but he just could never feel all that comfortable on skates, it really devastated him, but a few weeks later he came up to me and said he reckoned that soccer was just like hockey but you run around on grass and that he was gonna be a soccer player instead."<br><br>Is there any specific player C.J. looks up to or models his game after?<br>"I'm really not too sure, he was gotten real shy about it up until as of late, like he was a little unsure if this is really the path he should be taking, but just recently he had met a guy who had told him to go and declare for the SSL draft."<br><br>After hearing that last bit I was intrigued I'd heard of the SSL but I hadn't closely followed it. The thing that intrigued me more was that I wasn't the only one on this trail. Unfortunately it is getting late so soon we will release a follow up story on this that covers more details about C.J. and his future in the SSL.<br><br><!--c1--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1' id='CODE-WRAP'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->401 words<!--c2--></td></tr></table><!--ec2-->
