Luis Arroyave grabbed a few minutes with Barcelona’s striker Thierry Henry, and the player reiterated not only how much he loves U.S. sports, but how he’d like to live here some day, “and it might happen pretty soon.”
“I just realized recently in New York on vacation that soccer is growing,” Henry said. “I remember when I used to go to New York five years ago, if you were meeting European guys or people from Mexico or Jamaica, then they would know you. Now Americans know who you are.”
He said that since he was young “it’s always been a dream for me to live in the U.S. It’s always something I look forward to and it might happen pretty soon. If I come here one day to play — and I’m saying ‘if’ — everybody talks about New York because I’ve said I love New York. It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve been going to New York. There’s something I can’t describe about New York that I like. Just being able to do whatever I want to do, not being bothered — if I can say that not in a bad way — going to the movies. I feel free. The town is big. I love towns. I love buildings.”