Youth
Schmetzer was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington where he attended Nathan Hale High School. He learned to play soccer under the tutelage of his father Walter, who coached him with the Lake City Hawks youth team. Walter, a native of Germany, had played in the German Third Division before immigrating to the United States. Walter instilled a love for the game in Brian who became an outstanding youth and high school player.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.””
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By beauty of a mortal child,
And by her radiant youth delighted,
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