“My dream is that all of our kids in all of our communities feel that they belong to the U.S. Soccer Federation.”
— Hugo Salcedo
The issue of integrating Latino soccer talent into the mainstream of American soccer has been around for a long time, but it has never gotten as muchattention as in recent months — in the wake of the U.S. men failing to qualify for the World Cup, the switch by Californian Jonathan Gonzalez to the Mexican national team, and theelection of a new U.S. Soccer president.
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