CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Zack Campagnolo was a young soccer player getting his start in Cape Coral.<\/p>\n
Campagnolo began playing at 3 or 4 years old with the Cape Coral Soccer Association. His career soon took him through Fort Myers, Weston and the Orlando City academy before he moved to Colorado at 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started playing when I was about four, 3 or 4 years old in Cape Coral,\u201d Campagnolo said. \u201cIt was not too different from what most kids grew up playing and doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
His move to Orlando helped put him on the national team radar. Campagnolo earned his first U.S. youth national team call-up during his U-15 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the first real taste of that for me in my journey of the national team career and really experiencing what it is to be a national team player,\u201d Campagnolo said.<\/p>\n
The goalkeeper has since represented the United States in countries including Slovenia, Japan, Spain and Bulgaria. He was also part of the U.S. team at the U-17 World Cup in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Campagnolo said those trips have helped him grow on and off the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust getting a whole lot of international experience under my belt and new experiences off the field as well,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really opening my eyes to what the world has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Campagnolo continued his development with the Colorado Rapids academy and later signed his first professional contract with the organization.<\/p>\n
He has also had the opportunity to train alongside U.S. national team goalkeeper Zack Steffen, who Campagnolo said has served as a mentor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou start out as a kid at 11, 12 years old watching the game, and you\u2019re seeing a Zack Steffen playing on the biggest stage, and now you\u2019re training with him every day,\u201d Campagnolo said.<\/p>\n
Now, the 19-year-old is trying to continue climbing through the Rapids system and the U.S. national team program.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, continuing on my path through Rapids and moving up the ladder,\u201d Campagnolo said. \u201cHopefully, I can make the men\u2019s team at some point and be at a World Cup on that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Zack Campagnolo was a young soccer player getting his start in Cape Coral. Campagnolo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,130504,28,897,130503,2062,4571,130502],"class_list":["post-313599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-soccer-association","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-goalkeeper","tag-soccer","tag-united-states","tag-zack-campagnolo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}