Diego Navarro '20 Recruiting Profile

My Collegiate goals are to play at the highest possible level I can play and to give my all for my team and to take them as far as I possibly can with wins. I am a great team player. I personally feel making the play or assist for the goal is more magnificent than scoring the actual goal. I love to keep up my studies, doing homework whenever I'm not training or playing to keep up with academics as well as in soccer. I always give it my all when playing because I want to get better daily as from a few years ago, I had this goal to work harder than ever as my family was going through a lot and my grandma had been diagnosed with cancer two times in the past year or so. She is my motivation to be the very best player and the best person I can be, and I have that goal to make it for her because she wants the success for me as much as I want it for myself. Seeing my family, this low caused me to continually train alone outside of my team training as well as having long nights at the gym to give my mind some peace and working on fixing weaknesses I saw in myself that had affected my game. That gave me the fuel to work hard to hopefully one day make all my family's problems disappear.

I am a very simple player and have a great vision for the game, and I can see passes most players don't see. I love looking for the forwards when making runs and playing combination plays with my teammates. I like taking set-pieces as I have an accurate shot so I can set my teammates up for goals easily. I have played ODP for a few years, and I had been selected to play with The Region 1 team that had taken place in Arizona. I had been to a few US training centers as well as playing with DC United Academy for a few years, so I know what it is to play at the top level.