With the addition of Mikael Uhre from Denmark this week, Philadelphia Union head coach could now very easily field a starting XI of players who all hail from a different country on opening day February 26.
That fact was brought up in a press conference Thursday when Philadelphia Inquirer writer Jonathan Tannenwald mentioned it in a question to head coach Jim Curtin.
“That’s the great thing about our club,” Curtin said after jokingly thanking Tannewald for making his starting lineup for him. “It’s the great thing about the game of soccer, it brings people from all over the world together and then the game tends to speak one language.