The USA Team

Tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM we will watch the USA's first World Cup game. A political blogger I like a lot, Steve Gillard, is also a big soccer fan. He writes this about the American team:

Despite all the talk about club soccer expenses, and who plays soccer, the US team is a great representation of America. Immigrants, suburban kids, black, white. It's an American team which looks like America. SI did a story last year on DaMarcus Beasley and how he came from a working class single parent home to soccer at a time when black kids didn't play the game. It also did an all black starting 11,which goes against the image of the sport being suburban and white.

It isn't. It's integrated with players from all kinds of backgrounds who have one thing in common: being American soccer players.

This is a team Americans can root for without hesitation. No one living on a famous name, no one with big contracts, a team which is ours. We don't have to adopt another side to be included. Americans play, Americans can win. I'm going with Sam's Army today, because I am an American and I want to support our boys in the World Cup.

Go USA!