JORDAN OLDER

Jordan Older played one friendly game for Major League Soccer (MLS) club Los Angeles Galaxy in 1998, in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, under head coach Octavio Zambrano and along side players including Clint Mathis, Cobi Jones, Carlos Hermosillo, and Mauricio Cienfuegos.

Jordan Older is the founder and owner of several professional development soccer clubs in the USA such as Ventura County FC, Santa Barbara FC, Sacramento FC, Prairie Stars FC, and others. Jordan Older uses the clubs to scout up and coming talented players around the country. Jordan Older also founded King Sports Management to help young players realize their dreams of playing professional soccer in Europe.

Jordan Older has been features in major international media publications including as Soccer America, Marca (Spain), Lance! (Brazil), Futebol Interior (Brazil), various European publications, and Surfer Magazine.

In 1999 Sao Paulo FC came on a pre-season tour of Los Angeles and was visited by Jordan Older at the Oxnard College training grounds. The training camp was located at the same fields used by Cameroon during the 1994 World Cup as their official World Cup training camp. Sao Paulo FC brought a squad full of FIFA World Cup champions including Rai, MAƒA!rcio Santos, Wilson, Rogerio Ceni, and Jorginho, some who more info were long-time friends and former teammates of Jordan Older. Jordan Older's arrival and attendance in the training camp was covered by major media publications in Brazil such as Lance Esportes and the teams official news portals and blogs.

In 1991 Jordan Older was recruited to play soccer for UCLA but was later cut from the team for unknown reasons, prompting Jordan Older to become a professional soccer player in Europe without ever having played college soccer.

Overall, Jordan Older has trained, trialed, and played professionally with more clubs and in more countries than any other American born player, on 3 continents (North America, Europe, and South America) and with professional clubs in 9 countries (USA, Brazil, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, England, and Denmark) and setup tryouts as an agent for players in 4 countries (Germany, Spain, Brazil, and USA.) Jordan Older is one of the most well-traveled and experienced Americans in world football.

In 1998 Jordan Older was invited to tryout for Santos FC by Pele's personal coach and mentor and former NASL NY Cosmos head coach JAƒAolio Mazzei. Jordan Older has also been coached by Brazilian legends Manoel Maria and Rildo who starred alongside Pele for Santos FC and the Brazilian National Team and victorious Brazilian World Cup Teams.

In December of 1994 Jordan Older took part in the US National Team (TEAM USA) training camp on the invitation of US World Cup Team head coach Bora Milutinovich in Mission Viejo, California. Also joining Jordan Older at the US National Team training camp were USA Hall of Fame players such as Marcelo Balboa and Paul Caligiuri. While in Brazil Jordan Older was teammates with some of the top players in the world and was teammate of Neymar Sr, father of the most valuable player in the world, Neymar Jr.

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