Alex was born in Washington DC to English parents and grew up playing for local academies until he was 18 years old where he was recruited to play Division 1 university ‘soccer’ in Boston. He was wanting to fully develop and give himself every opportunity to succeed in football and, after a year, realised this was not where he needed to be as he was struggling to get the best football provisions. Despite being in the same league as DC United, Philadelphia Union, Red Bull’s teams (top MLS clubs) he knew he needed to get out of the US and find soccer schools in England to take his talent to the next level.