Four players from Pacific FC’s system are heading to Germany to train with VfL Bochum 1848, a partner club in the top-tier German football league Bundesliga.
Defender Christian Greco-Taylor, 19, along with academy players Will Edgson, Mattias Hallam, and Mattias Vales, all 16, will spend two weeks training with Bochum’s U-21 team. This is the first time Pacific players have travelled to Bochum as part of the partnership established in May 2024.
“Through our partnership with VfL Bochum we have now extended our pathway from grassroots youth soccer to the Canadian Premier League and now the Bundesliga,” said Jamar Dixon, Pacific FC’s director of Football and Youth Development. “Our academy players now have access to opportunities, both domestically and internationally, that didn’t exist before Pacific FC.”
Greco-Taylor joined Pacific FC in 2024 and represented Canada Soccer’s U-20 National Team during its qualification for the Concacaf Under-20 Championship.
Edgson, Hallam, and Vales are students at St. John’s Academy and part of the Vancouver Island Wave Program. Vales and Edgson signed development contracts with Pacific last season.
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