Nearing the end of a frustrating year at German Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg, former UCLA Bruin striker Kamani Hill is weighing up his options and focused on finding European playing time by any means necessary.

The 21-year old attacker has found games hard to come by this term after making his first team debut last season under then-coach Klaus Augenthaler. Following a summer managerial change in which former Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath was anointed to the post and brought with him wholesale roster changes, playing time has been hard to find for the American.

In fact, Hill has yet to play a single minute of first team soccer this season, and boasts but a solitary 53-minute appearance in the reserve team from a recent 1-0 loss to the Borussia Dortmund II, a game in which the hopeful national team striker found it tough to find his footing.

"It was alright - kind of a frustrating game," Hill told American Soccer Daily. "Our reserve team is in last place, and it was a hard game to play in for my first game back in six months, but it's still nice to get out there."

With playing time nearly impossible to come by and rumors abuzz of a January transfer window exit, the young striker admits that a departure might well be looming on the horizon.

"I don't really don't have a chance here, so I'm going to need to find another club," Hill declared, with fellow fringe players Peter van der Heyden and Christopher Lamprecht also tipped for an exit. "The first step is just getting out of the field."

"I really need to establish myself in Europe, even if I need to drop down a level. I'm not giving up on that yet!"

Despite the recent re-institution of the defunct San Jose Earthquakes in the backyard of Hill's hometown, the Berkeley boy isn't ready to follow a parallel Bundesliga-to-Bay Area route as that taken by US Men's National Team hotshot Landon Donovan. However, an eventual MLS future might still bear promise at a later date for the young American.

"(Playing in the MLS is) certainly something that I'd like to do," he pondered. "But not at this point in my career."