A player who moved from South Jersey to Argentina and a manager who used to play for the Kixx are trying to help grow futsal in the United States, and reach next year's World Cup.
Luciano "Lucho" Gonzalez of the U.S. men's futsal team was born in Stratford, N.J., and moved to Argentina with his family when he was three years old.When people talk about U.S. national soccer teams, they usually mean the star-studded senior men’s and women’s teams: Christian Pulisic, Alex Morgan, and so on.
But the U.S. national team program as a whole is much more than just those two squads. In fact, the U.S. Soccer Federation runs 27 national teams: the big two, 16 men’s and women’s youth teams, and nine so-called “extended” national teams: men’s and women’s beach soccer, indoor futsal, deaf and cerebral palsy teams, and a co-ed power wheelchair team. The U.S. has the most extended teams of any national federation in the world.
If you didn’t know that, you’re far from alone. U.S. Soccer hasn’t always done a great job of getting the word out about everything it does. That has changed for the better in recent times, and this week brought a local spotlight on one of the programs. The men’s futsal team has been holding a training camp at United Sports in Downingtown, preparing for Concacaf’s qualifying for next year’s World Cup. There are some local ties: Luciano “Lucho” Gonzalez was born in Stratford, N.J., before moving to Argentina at age 3, and manager Hewerton Moreira’s 16-year pro indoor career includedIt takes long enough to get from Downingtown to where the Spectrum stood, never mind to South Jersey.
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