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Giacomo San Vitale

Italian creator, ex-college soccer player, and host of the running interview series Two Miles With in Tampa; first Italian to document American college athlete life on YouTube.

Sep 25, 2026

3:50
Who helped you make that decision?
3:52
I didn't sign, but I went to this campus and they called me.
3:55
And of course, I mean, my uncle was a player and My mom never really into soccer, but when a professional, especially in Italy, when a professional team like that calls you, you go.
4:05
And so it was an incredible opportunity.
4:08
It's crazy how I don't remember what I've done yesterday, but that day I remember it.
4:12
It really was traumatizing both in a positive and negative way because it didn't go well.
4:17
But I remember when we arrived, You are there with so many selected players.

12 MINS LATER

15:57
yeah
1:32
20. yeah um and then been here ever since you're 29 28 28 so eight years here um what let's start there why america from italy at 20 years old
1:47
Yeah, for me, you know, it was never like a country or a city or a place.
1:50
For me, it was just soccer, right? I always said since I was young that soccer was going to change my life.
1:56
And of course, what I always say is that if you had asked me at the time, I thought it was going to change my life because I was going to become a pro, millionaire.
2:03
And, you know, I come from a very, very humble family and, you know, just be...
2:08
the first one to like, you know, change our lives.
2:10
And funny enough, you know, 28, I can look back and can say that like soccer did change my life because he brought me here.

14 MINS LATER

15:50
Okay, so 2018, 19, 20, when really the content game came on strong during COVID, but you were doing it before that, right? And so like, why'd you start doing content when it wasn't cool?

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