A look at the U.S. U-17s

[PROFILES] The USA kicks off play at the 2011 Under-17 World Cup in Mexico on Sunday when it faces the Czech Republic in Torreon (TV: ESPNU, live 7 pm ET).Coach Wilmer Cabrera‘s U-17s are a multi-ethnic team that includes immigrants from war-torn Croatia and Sierra Leone, the sons of immigrants from Colombia,Venezuela and Scotland, a player who commuted back and forth across the border between Tijuana and South San Diego and a player born in New York to a Swiss father and Japanese mother and raised inTokyo. For a look at the U-17s …

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1-Kendall McIntosh (SanJose Earthquakes Academy; Santa Rosa, Calif.)
Grew up in an athletic family in Northern California’s wine country. Dad Steve, an executive withKendall-Jackson winery, played basketball at Harvard, and brother Donald is a former All-ACC defender at Duke.