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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4063506, member: 3850"] Zoo....in Florida, my guys often played South American immigrant teams from Dade County when it got to the quarterfinals.... true that they benefit from very early coaching and a primary sport focus ....Some of our young men trained in Peru in the summer....they came back in awe of some of the local Peruvian clubs they played...they talked of boys in villages growing up playing without cleats on hard clay fields and with minimal professional coaching. But with an understanding of where their pass target would be and a game that, to our kids, appeared to be coordinated through telepathy. Soccer has changed somewht in my lifetime...40 years ago, the Brits like Man U went over the top.a lot..played "hard men" in the middle and sent flyers like Giggs (as a left winger) to chase the long ball....A game that young Americans readily adopted because it was easier to understand for kids raised on American football. Building from the back and the "beautiful game" propelled Brazil and Argentina and enveloped the sport. In South America, they were teaching the Concepto Del Tercer Hombre ...and our kids were starting to pick it up in the late 90's...South American coaches were hired by clubs from Miami to Tallahassee. I learned soccer in the way back from Brits who had played for Newcastle, the Scotland National Team, etc...I had to relearn when I played on an adult club team named the Green Cards...players from Britain, France, Argentina, Nigeria, Tanzania, Morroco, and the US. I was never as talented as my compatriots because I played like what I was...a man who grew up playing football. [/QUOTE]

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