The only person i have had high hopes for was pulsic. This team hasn't fielded a young player who was the caliber of Dempsey or Donovan in a while and lets be honest, it's not like those guys were world class ballers. With every major sport that we dominate it is crazy to think that we have never even sniffed true relevance in this sport. i think that it begins at the lowest levels of sports in this country. The talented, confident, and natural athletes that are born in this country end up playing a sports like Football, basketball, or baseball. few trickle down into soccer. when i think back on all the years i played in school, playing soccer was never really the "cool" thing to do. we may have had a decent crowd for a rivalry game or two, but nothing like the crowd football would draw. I always wonder what would have happen if our big athletes would have grown up playing soccer, where we would be.

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