mahatma gandhi
Leonard George and Willy Jackson were the first African Americans to play for Florida.
Yes. Lora Hinton was the first black player to recieve a scholarship and play football at LSU.
First off, you have to be an incredible football player. Then you have to play college football for a few years, then you enter the NFL draft, and hope you get drafted.
taevontae Moore
Nat Northington, who attended the University of Kentucky, was the first African American to play in a football game for an SEC school. The year was 1967 and the game was against the University of Mississippi.
Lucy Harris was the first black woman All-American basketball player in 1997
On a football pitch of course.
The first player to be paid for playing football was William Heffelfinger who was paid $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association in a game against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club in 1892.
Play college football and play well.
There are various reasons. It is a very popular sport in Europe. Some of the best countries in world football are in Europe, so there are lots of good leagues there and it is a good place to play. Players get well paid in Europe.
If you were a good football player you would already be playing for a major football team in Sweden.