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Werner gets best of both worlds playing for Salisbury, Germany

By Chris Lawlor
ESPNRISE.com

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Björn Werner first sensed it in January. There was a personal void that only a true commitment to competition a continent away could fill. "I e-mailed Coach [Salisbury's Chris Adamson] and told him I'd like to come back," he said. "For me to become better, I need to call against the best football players, and they are in America." Werner That initiated his second go-round playing high school football on American soil. Werner, a foreign exchange student from Berlin, Germany, and risi ...

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