Youth
Castillo grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico and played for Mayfield High School under coach Arturo Garibay. In 2002, as a sophomore, he was named NSCAA/Adidas High School State Player of the Year. He was one of the top players in New Mexico as he helped and led Mayfield High School to two State Championship games.
He first gained notice from professional teams in 2005 playing for his local club team in the Dallas Cup, one of the world's top youth tournaments. His team made it to the Dallas Cup final for the Super Group but went down to Atletico Paranaense of Brazil 1-0.
Castillo was also a player for the Olympic Development Program regional pool for many years. His younger brother, Noel Castillo, is currently on the reserve team for Indios de Ciudad Juarez of Mexico.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“Better to endure hardship in youth than poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
““I don’t suppose there’s a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There’s youth to the amount of eight hundred pound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I’d take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get ‘em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among ‘em as nothing should equal it!””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)