In this testimonial, former Division‑I soccer player Tyler Svitsky recounts his four‑year college career and subsequent 2.5‑year professional stint in Denmark (Nestved Boldklub) and the USL Championship (Birmingham Legion FC). He credits mentor Zev Taublieb for guiding him through every stage of the college recruiting process and the transition to professional play. Zev’s support spanned self‑representation as an agent, training sessions, nutrition, recovery, and practical tasks such as contacting coaches, phone outreach, email communication, and assembling highlight videos. Tyler emphasizes Zev’s deep knowledge, work ethic, and proven track record helping multiple athletes, and strongly recommends reaching out to Zev for anyone seeking guidance on collegiate or professional soccer pathways.
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Hey, this is Tyler Svitsky. I played Division 1 college soccer for 4 years before transitioning to play professionally for about 2.5 years. I played for a team in Denmark called Nestved Boldklub in the Danish first division and then played in the USL Championship for a team called Birmingham Legion FC. Zev was one of my mentors during the whole college recruiting process and then was specifically helpful when I was figuring out how to play professionally, where I wanted to play professionally. He guided me through all the steps that it took to represent myself as an agent, helped me train, trained with me multiple times, knows everything there is to know about both representing oneself and getting opportunities at the professional level, but also at the college level, set an example for what it takes in terms of work ethic, what sorts of practice and training you should be doing, how to take care of your body from a nutritional perspective, from a physical perspective, working out, stretching, doing yoga, all of these things. He's a very knowledgeable guy, has been around the block, knows what he's talking about, and I would highly recommend reaching out to him if you have any questions about playing soccer at the college level, playing soccer at the professional level, if you want to know what it takes to get to that level, if you need help reaching out, reaching out to coaches, emailing them, talking to them on the phone, putting together your highlight video, these are all things that he's done multiple times. He's helped other people multiple times like myself do, and he would be a great person to get in touch with about that.
