Because it’s a game played all across the world, soccer is looked at as a kind of international language, but it also has dialects. In different parts of the world, different kinds of soccer are played, with different regions being known for primarily defensive play, for tactical, heady play, for open-ended, speedy play. Teams thus often gravitate towards collecting players from certain regions. Consider the strong South American contingent that anchored Tata Martino’s Atlanta United in the team’s inaugural season or the group of four Hondurans who played for Houston Dynamo last season prior to Romell Quioto’s move to the Montreal Impact.
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