Wasatch Soccer Sentinel
Well into the offseason, Jasper Löffelsend is back in Germany after his breakout year with RSL. Having managed the rare and difficult leap from late round draft pick to every game MLS starter it's safe to say the 25-year-old from Köln has been a hit with fans across the Wasatch Front.
Domestically, his rise has not gone unnoticed either, and Jasper was invited as a guest to interview with OneFootball Deutschland, a popular German youtube channel with over 360,000 subscribers. Jasper went into great detail about his career in the video below (German), his thoughts about MLS, and start to life with RSL. With some help from a native German speaker, we have summarized some key points and quotes of this rather insightful and in-depth interview below. The highlight of which, appears that RSL has gone ahead and activated his first year extension to keep him with the team going into 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_Uf6Vno-M
College Scholarship Offers and Education
I think I had seven offers in total or something like that. But only two were very attractive to me because they were simply top colleges that were also good at soccer. One of the reasons (for selecting the University of Pittsburgh) was that they are reasonably high up in the rankings, so that you can develop well and the other was to get a full scholarship. Because education is very expensive in the US I didn't feel like shelling out another 10,000 for my master's degree... It was very important to me that I complete my master's degree. Which was the primary reason for me to go to America in the first place.
