ing Premier League football, challenging for Europe and creating international players,” he remembers. LeBron James has played in 51 first-round games in his career – and his teams in Cleveland and Miami are 44-7 in those contests. et manager John Laughlin put rolls of $2 general admission tickets in their pockets and sold 400 on the street. US Soccer has a new performance director – and he’s the former head of sports science at the Premier League.