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If Our Top Athletes Played Soccer?  Soccer will never make it as
a big-time sport in the U.S.  There, I said it.   But imagine
the possibilities if our top athletes grew up dreaming of World
Cup glory instead of Super Bowl rings?  I don’t mean to
disrespect the current members of the U.S. soccer team, but even
they would probably admit that better American athletes are
playing other sports.   So, I decided to peruse the ranks of the
major U.S. sports leagues—the NFL, MLB, NBA—plus the NHL, and
tried to figure out exactly what our national team would look
like if soccer were as popular here as it is in, say, Brazil.
(One note: This is assuming the following players spent their
entire lives playing soccer.  I don’t want to hear about how
basketball players would get too many handballs and wouldn’t
know how to use their feet.  If