1.   American soccer fans paint their faces.

2.   American soccer fans will do what I do.

3.   American soccer leaders insist more teen-agers need to make an early professional commitment because of the limitations of the U.S. youth and college system.

4.   And so the Nike poster athlete of the new millennium is a female American soccer player, Mia Hamm.

5.   And U.S. Soccer knows what it is going to take to keep American soccer at this level.

6.   Another said Clint Mathis, the American soccer star.

7.   Arena is one of the winningest coaches in the history of American collegiate soccer.

8.   Arena is a sarcastic, sometimes caustic New Yorker who has enjoyed success and bruised egos at the highest levels of American soccer.

9.   At this point, it carries around the future of American soccer each time it plays, limiting the player development and experimentation.

10.   Bill and Stephanie Hamm, parents of the face of American soccer, left their South Austin home Friday for Pasadena, Calif.