What would be your state's Best XI?

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3rd Degree found this 9/19/2007 on njmg.typepad.com [flag]
For those of you who missed it, I wrote a piece on Tuesday where I named the current Best XI of New Jersey-born soccer players . Ten of the 11 players are professional players at present, with Villanova defender Matt Sleece the only college player on the squad. As I put that team together I couldn't help but wonder what some of the other All-State pro soccer teams would look like. I'm not ... [link]

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120 Fahrenheit: The Republic of Texas Team
Published 9/19/2007 by Buzz Carrick at 3rd Degree
... one and posted a New York one as well.  You see back in the early days of 3rd Degree (97-98 give or take) I floated the idea of a US States Cup with “National teams” representing each state.  I went so far as to do one for Texas and then attempt one for the rest of the 50 states.  I edited and tweaked the teams several times over the first two or three years of the site as it was one of our early static features. ...

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