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To: JRI who wrote (48159)	2/15/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

john:+++++++++++++++OT+++++++++++++++ I love the thought of the Yanks beating the Germans - we beat them in the World Cup Final at Wembley and they have never forgiven us. Very interesting thoughts - Liverpool have just opened a residential youth academy (cost $30 million) and will take kids from about 7 years from all over the world including the US. Ajax in Amsterdam have been doing it for years. Other English clubs are following. The Liverpool Academy is run by Steve Heighway - remember him! I have met Rush and recently met Michael Owen. If the US became a player in soccer they would Americanise it - you know lots of technology in the equipment, lots more statistics. Friedel, the Yank, is really not a top-class goalie and is being replaced at Liverpool even though the first team goalie is unreliable. He is not first choice for the US team either. It is hard for Americans to be good at soccer - it is the culture. Could the Yanks ever match the passion of the British game or the poetry and romanticism of the Italians and Spanish. Yesterday I watched live TV wth the 100,000 crowd Barcelona thrash Real Madrid. As a spectacle and a participatory event soccer is growing all the time. Keep in touch.