El fútbol estadounidense pasó décadas buscando coherencia. Encontró algo mejor.
Durante años, Estados Unidos buscó una identidad futbolística única. En cambio, su mejor equipo surgió de una amalgama de orígenes, culturas y trayectorias de desarrollo. En 1993, la Federación de Fútbol de Estados Unidos le otorgó un contrato a Rinus Michels. Pero el padrino holandés del Fútbol Total, materializado a través de su figura en el campo, Johan Cruyff, no fue contratado para entrenar a la selección nacional, ni para entrenar…
For years the United States sought a single soccer identity. Instead, its best team emerged from a patchwork of backgrounds, cultures and development paths
In 1993, the United States Soccer Federation handed a contract to Rinus Michels. But the Dutch godfather of Total Football, operationalized through his on-field avatar Johan Cruyff, was not hired to coach the national team, or to coach anybody, really.
By this time, Michels, who managed the Los Angeles Aztecs of the North American Soccer League in 1979 and 1980, had already turned down the chance to manage the US men’s national team twice. Once, in 1983, when it would be entered, disastrously, into the NASL as Team America. And once more in 1991, when Bora Milutinović was appointed instead.
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