From Middlesborough to the Midwest: goalkeeper Cameron Simpson’s journey to D1 soccer

When an Englishman has a standout game in g oal, it often comes from com petitions like the FA Cup, English football leagues, or elsewhere across Europe. It would also be hard to believe that it would happen in a ‘soccer’ game and not ‘football’. One exception comes from Valley Fields in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Cameron Simpson of Marquette men’s soccer takes center stage between the sticks. The concept of anyone from Middleborough spending their soccercareer across the Atlantic is quite the foreign concept, and the journey to starting between the sticks 4,000 miles from home was, as Simpson himself…