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Brad Friedel is still blazing a trail for Americans with dreams. - Greg Lalas  - SI.com
Brad Friedel is still blazing a trail for Americans with dreams. - Greg Lalas - SI.com
Years ago, before Major League Soccer, before the 1990 World Cup, before Kasey Keller and Eric Wynalda proved Americans could thrive at the highest levels in Europe, U.S. soccer players had, shall we say, managed expectations. Most of us hoped to get a scholarship, play college soccer, maybe ...
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Brad Friedel: Legend
The Offside Rules — ... On behalf of the American soccer nation, you make our expatriate footballing dreams come true. Thanks for all the great years past and the bad, too stubborn-to-retire ones that may come in the future. ...

Yank Abroad News & Kljestan Highlights
Yanks Abroad Soccer Highlights — *Rangers star DaMarcus Beasley has his car wrecked by vandals. *Brad Friedel is still blazing a trail for every American with dreams. *Chad Marshall has finished his trial with German second-division club Mainz, which will apparently wait until after the first of the year before deciding whether to sign him. *MLS wants $4 million for Cooper. Will a smaller club be willing to pay that for him? It will be interesting to see. *Americans Abroad roundup from Soccernet. If you read this blog regularly, then you ...

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