FOXBORO - Raising his son in Belgrade, Serbia, Marko Mitrović’s father wanted him to go to Massachusetts, specifically to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Though a career playing professional soccer got in the way of that plan, a few years ago Mitrović finally got an opportunity to be on the campus.

“Always when I would come to Boston, I was coming here, to Foxboro, I’ve never been in the city,” Mitrović said. “Then we had two games, one in New York and one here and we stayed somewhere in the city. I took an Uber, went to MIT and called my Dad.”

“It was not the way he wanted me to go to MIT but now that I’m here and in Boston, there is something in the universe.”

Mitrović, who was named the 10th head coach of the New England Revolution last week , is seen as a perfec

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