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IU senior starts MLS Draft Combine

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After leading the Hoosiers in goals this season, IU senior forward Femi Hollinger-Janzen is trying to be drafted into Major League Soccer.

The combine started Thursday in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and features 60 total players who competed in college this season. Those 60 players were broken into teams of four who will play against each other throughout the six-day camp.

Hollinger-Janzen is the only IU player at the combine and is one of six players from the Big Ten.

He will play in three games, one on Friday, Sunday and Tuesday, against each of the other teams. Scouts from all 20 MLS teams are in 
attendance.

Hollinger-Janzen scored eight goals this season with five assists, and spent a week last summer training with Sporting KC. The two-round draft will take place Jan. 14 in Baltimore, Maryland.

The last time an IU player was drafted in the MLS Superdraft was when A.J. Corrado and Nikita Kotlov were drafted in the second round in 2014.

Hollinger-Janzen was projected to be drafted in the second round by topdrawersoccer.com in its first mock draft.

Michael Hughes

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