It’s a long way from a dirt soccer field in a war-torn west-African nation to the perfect turf of a Major League Soccer stadium in the United States. Geographically, they’re on opposite sides of the world; experientially,
they’re separate universes. Recently, sophomore Kei Kamara bridged that distance, when the Columbus Crew made him the ninth pick overall in the MLS SuperDraft and the first person from the tiny nation of Sierra Leone to reach the top echelon of American soccer.