Team USA being Europeanize

Cardiff City striker France Rudy Gestede desire to play for the USA national team has come at the time of a backlash from American born players as highlighted by one player on Twitter.

 

The suggestion is that Coach Jürgen Klinsmann trying too hard to Europeanize U.S. team with players born anywhere but the USA and European based players. Most of the recent call-ups by the coach have been European based players. Recently American born professional player Preston Zimmerman currently playing for SV Darmstadt 98 in Germany's 3rd Liga said via Twitter,

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It is something national teams around the world practise at the moment closer to home the suggest is that English born Cardiff City defender Ben Turner throw is lot in with Wales. He is believed to have Welsh grandparents, which is the basic requirement you need.

I suppose Zimmerman is talking about a player like Fabian Johnson born in Germany and play for them u18, u19 and u21 before switching to the USA squad.

Technically if you were born in Wales and your Mother were Scottish, Father English, and grandparents French, Germany, Spain and Canadian you could play for any of those counties. If Klinsmann is looking to Europe maybe Gestede could catch, his eye I am sure new of the young Frenchman interest has been notice by someone USA set-up.

Before the 1-0 defeat France in November said,

“It’s a different part of American culture. America represents the global picture. Those are kids who came through military families or for whatever reasons, working reasons of their parents, then they grow up with a different educational system, which gives them in soccer terms an edge ahead of American kids growing up in the U.S. They go through thousands more hours of playing the game than the American kid because the American kid only plays organized [soccer]. They come through different systems that gave them, especially, a technical advantage, and an advantage in terms of how they read the game, anticipate the game, because the more you play the more you read things ahead.”

“Now you live in this dual-citizenship world that is normal. It’s globalization. It’s just the way it is.”

There are fans who stay were your born is the country you play for and I kind of fell into that ground with the little interest in international football ball I have.