Major League Soccer (MLS)

**BCWWF** · 04-01-2009, 05:41 PM

I can see if you interpreted what I said as being, "The players on the original USA teams weren't really Americans."

But that's not what I meant. My point was the people played soccer, sometimes even on a semi-professional extent, but it was mainly in the areas of heavy immigration and strongly ethnic neighborhoods. The most famous example is The Hill in St. Louis, where all of the Italian families lived and where a handful of guys on the 1950 World Cup team came from.

Just to clarify.

04-01-2009, 05:41 PM	#11
BCWWF The People's Member Posts: 18,092	I can see if you interpreted what I said as being, "The players on the original USA teams weren't really Americans." But that's not what I meant. My point was the people played soccer, sometimes even on a semi-professional extent, but it was mainly in the areas of heavy immigration and strongly ethnic neighborhoods. The most famous example is The Hill in St. Louis, where all of the Italian families lived and where a handful of guys on the 1950 World Cup team came from. Just to clarify.