Bryn Ritchie was 16 years old and the youngest member on his squad when the San Diego Nomads elite age-group soccer team traveled to England to compete against top-level squads in a soccer-crazed country. Ritchie, now a senior defender on the Washington men's soccer team, didn't see much action on the field during that first trip across the pond. Upon returning to the States, he vowed to visit again one day and get his chance on the field.