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Soccer America Confidential Jesus Ferreira strives to spearhead USA's frontline

In January camp, the 22-year-old FC Dallas attacker played a veteran role and faced his native country. ...

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Adeus Pele -- my 17-year-old mentor
Pele became, during the 1958 World Cup, probably the most important influence in the development of my soccer understanding. ...
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"I don't want to call it resistance, but there's a cause and effect to increase standards. The cost, and the barriers to entry, rise with everything that we do. With every 30-minute, every 45-minute, every hour-and-a-half seminar you have to sit on, every cost associated with screening, all of those are real factors that we are working through. But it's not gonna stop the work. Nobody's raising their hand and saying, ‘Stop it, this is nonsense.'" - Mike Cullina, the U.S. Club Soccer CEO who is one of the leaders of the U.S. Soccer board committee making recommendations on how to address reforms outlined in the Yates Report, on the tiered roll-out of the new “Safe Soccer” program over four years adding additional layers of protection for soccer participants in an effort to keep bad actors out of the sport at federation-member teams or organizations. (Yahoo Sports)

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