New U.S. Coach Must Embrace Latin Influence - Soccer

“But yet another coach from a northern Europe background is the last thing American soccer needs at this stage of its development. For most of its 100-year history here, the sport has been in the grip of the northern Europeans ”” Germans, Scots, and English ”” and their influence has reached the point where it is a negative factor. The new America, with its vastly changed immigration patterns, now features a huge and growing Hispanic community whose soccer roots are primarily Latin American. The European tradition has found it difficult to accommodate this threat to its hegemony, with the result that the Latin talent has been largely marginalized.”

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