Who I Am
At 17, I was playing high-level soccer and got selected for a FFF USA program — a full scholarship to play in an American university. It was everything I'd worked toward. Then Covid hit in 2020 and killed that dream overnight.
What followed was the hardest period of my life. Nothing excited me the way soccer had. That drive, that competition, that sense of pushing toward something — it was gone. Until I discovered entrepreneurship. Growing up, that world felt out of reach — something only certain people did. But when I found it, it hit me the same way soccer had: the ambition, the resilience, the thrill of building something from nothing. It became my new obsession.
Meanwhile, my original dream hadn't died — it had transformed. I studied in one of the weakest classes préparatoires in France, yet through sheer work, got accepted into ISAE-SUPAERO, one of the best engineering schools in the country. That school opened the door to the University of Florida — a semester I applied for and earned entirely on my own terms.
Five years after Covid took my first shot at America, I made it there myself. I fell in love with the country and the mentality. Now I want to go back — not to play, but to build.
