Europe has become a pipeline of Division I recruits and increasingly for schools from the Power Five conferences. Recruits from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Serbia and Ireland signed this week with programs including Washington, TCU, West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Boston College.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Since Neal Brown and his coaching staff have arrived at WVU, one European player has signed with the Mountaineers and two more have verbally committed to the Class of 2021. So exactly how do European players that don’t have a traditional high school football system catch the eye of top level college coaches? That’s where “The Ambassador” Brandon Collier comes in.
Back home, where wearing lederhosen is a matter of national pride and antique castles dot every horizon, he might have been considered something of a curiosity. Most kids in Roth—a small town of about 25,000 in Bavaria, Germany—dream of playing a different kind of football.
He is all alone in Room 225 at Ascender Hall East. It is a Friday afternoon in the middle of June. Dinnertime nears. His workouts for the day are done, and his nightly routine will soon commence. Ilija Krajnovic is both thankful for an opportunity that will change his life and homesick in a way he can't quite put into words.
Million dollars in scholarships generated
International athletes have been offered D1 Scholarships
Countries are represented among our D1 Scholarship athletes
Over 100 total scholarships have been awarded on the DreamChasers Tour..
PPI has helped my son to live a Dream that no one thought
was possible being a German QB to playing Power 5 Football in the USA
Brandon Collier of PPI Recruits has really changed the
landscape of Recruting
Collier is “forcing people to pay attention. He’s forcing
programs to look at his guys,” Simmons said. “He’s getting them over to America and getting them in coaches faces.
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