11.   A tearful Alan Rothenberg, the chairman of MLS and godfather of American soccer, said that he could not have written the script better himself.

12.   All of a sudden, a new horizon has opened for American soccer players.

13.   All along, American soccer officials have told us the World Cup would help establish a professional league here.

14.   All American soccer announcers should be required to listen to Mike Emrick, who can explain hockey rules simply without breaking from the flow of the action.

15.   But the United States finally seems capable of winning over critics and hyphenated American soccer fans.

16.   But with the end of this stage of American soccer, the future of American soccer has now begun.

17.   Cobi Jones has the traits one might expect in the most recognizable American soccer player ever.

18.   Eric Wynalda established himself as the top goal scorer in American soccer history on Sunday in the third-place match at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

19.   Everybody who knows me knows that I will always be there for my players and the American soccer fans.

20.   Four years ago, Claudio Reyna was the boy wonder of American soccer.