This is how the globalisation of team sports works from a US perspective. The big leagues, flush with cash from their astonishingly wealthy domestic market, act like a magnet, pulling in top talent from all over the world. International matches? Hey, they're an afterthought. At best. "Soccer" has long been a chimp among the 600lb gorillas that this world view has spawned.
Germany 2006 has pointed the way to an escape-route from this predicament. Why not exploit the global appeal of football in a different way, by basing the US international team more of the time in Europe, the sport's only superpower?
