"And what about Portugal? What's a country with just 10 million people doing here?
There are only 200,000 registered players in all of Portugal - less than California's youth totals. And what does that have to do with the USA? Well, the story goes like this....
Credit Luiz Felipe Scolari with much of that success. He brought steel into the team and a family-like spirit that won't quit. Above all, this is the team that evolved from the plan that former national coach and now Manchester United chief assistant coach Carlos Queiroz drafted in the mid-80s. And this is the same Queiroz that drafted U.S. Soccer's "2010: We Can Fly" plan. Some of that plan has been followed by U.S. coaches and officials, but much of it has been ignored."
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