Danny Klinkscale

It's not like they're, you know, the United States is a large country, but Brazil is a soccer power, and they've got, you know, it's a huge country.

So I think it's very difficult.

That doesn't mean that we can't, you know, do the coaching and have the emphasis, but until when you're splitting up the pie of great athletes many, many ways, we should get to the point where, you know,

We're not getting beaten occasionally by Panama and stuff like that.

That should be.

But until that type of thing starts happening, I don't think there's a great chance of it.

Now, it is a single elimination sport at some point, so you might have a magic generation of players.

I mean, there's many smallish countries in Europe that get a core of players

You know, eight or ten really outstanding players.

I mean, Croatia's been a very good team for several cycles now because they had four or five really superstar players come together.

That could happen.

So there is that sort of pot of gold at the end of the rainbow type of thing.

But it's going to be hard because...

I think even to think that soccer could be the fourth most popular sport is a reach.

I think we sort of went through the period where football, American football, was getting so much negative publicity and people were talking about the demise of American football a little bit.

I think that ship has kind of sailed.

And I also think the American...

collegiate system now with players being paid is going to perpetuate that because it's still going to be paying more money to basketball players and football players.

Well, you know, the guy who was the best American soccer player last year, he got hurt, and it looks like he's going to be healthy enough for the World Cup is Anthony Robinson.

And he's English.