Athens, Ala. (WHNT) — This week’s North Country Ford Key Athlete of the Week comes from Athens High School.

Athen's kicker Mateo Roche is a foreign exchange student who is following in his older brother's footsteps in playing for the team according to head coach Cody Gross.

"Mateo is a foreign exchange student, and the host family actually had his brother a couple years ago, and his brother was on our team," Gross said. "They sent an email late in the summer and said that they had his brother coming, and I said tell him to come on when he gets here, and he got here at just the right time."

Gross said Roche has certainly made an impact on the team, standing out in a way he hadn't seen before.

"He's kicked the longest field goal that we've kicked in my ten years here, he kicked a 40-yard

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