 When he arrived in the United States, he joined the Plainfield Soccer Club scoring 4 goals in one game and then a 5th goal in the next match.Then he played with Bayonne Rovers, a local amateur team in the spring of 1928.They were a top team in the Northern New Jersey League and had playing for them, Henry Carroll, known as "Razzo", the 16 year old U.S. Olympic Team striker, who participated in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.