美国足球协会花了数十年时间寻求统一的体系，最终找到了更好的方案。
多年来，美国一直试图打造一个统一的足球形象。然而，其最优秀的球队却是由来自不同背景、文化和发展路径的球员组成的。1993年，美国足球协会与里努斯·米歇尔斯签订了合同。但这位荷兰“全攻全守”足球的教父，其理念通过他在球场上的化身约翰·克鲁伊夫得以实践，他并没有被聘为国家队主教练，也没有执教……
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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