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SEASoN 39
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Now 28, Herculez says he’s benefitted from acquiring what he calls “two styles ... making it look pretty [versus] ... more aerial battles, more speed.” Indeed, many U.S.-born or English coaches in the ligas americanas teach a kind of soccer emphasizing speed and strength, with no one player holding onto the ball for too long; long passes combined with fast runs are the preferred path to goals. It’s been called run-and-gun, modeled on some of the English Premier League teams. This is,
more or less, the kind of game the U.S. team plays. It is decidedly not the game played by World Cup champion, Spain. Lito Carbajal, who for eight years covered the local Hispanic soccer scene for Spanish-language newsweekly El Tiempo, puts it this way: “It’s as if American players are taught not to like the ball, because they want to get rid of it so quickly.” Throughout Latin America, however, children learn just the opposite: Touching the ball, and seeing what your feet,