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Being a college athlete has always been kind of a juggling act.

You got classes and books to read, training and place to study.

But about a year ago, Piric, Gould and his teammates on the Georgetown soccer team, they

went ahead and added a new thing to their to-do list, make deals.

They thought about all of the different products and services they use and then started

cold calling and DMing those companies on social.

They were like, hey, do you want to sponsor me or pay me to endorse your product?

You are just selling yourself.

I play for the number one men's soccer team in the country.

There's many followers on Instagram.

I love your product.

And yeah, sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't.

I have a few friends on the team that work with this one taco shop near campus.

They get free food and they get paid to post each month.

So that's a pretty good deal.

Good deal.

Sounds like an amazing deal.

I mean, how can you beat free tacos?

I don't know if you've seen, but there's some football players at certain state schools

that are now like getting Lamborghinis, which is outrageous.

Okay, I think that beats free tacos.

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