Eastview's Mathew Gweh Takes Soccer Skills From Liberia to U.S.

boys soccer fans cheered their team to an impressive 21-1-1 record during the fall 2011 season, the only loss .

Some of the loudest cheers came for Mathew Gweh, who ended the season as the high scorer in the state in boys soccer.

Gweh was named the Pioneer Press's boys soccer player of the year, and reporter Tim Leighton's story delves into Gweh's upbringing in Liberia—from where he emigrated to the United States with his family in 2005—how he got to Eastview and how he approaches his game.

The article also mentions Gweh's future plans to play in the elite Minnesota Thunder Academy soccer program.

Next year, Gweh and three other Eastview boys soccer players will give up their high school eligibility to play in the academy, according to a Pioneer Press article on the state championship game.

Read more about Gweh's journey to Eastview, approach to the game of soccer, stats and his future on the Pioneer Press's website, twincities.com.