Hamburg attacker Bobby Wood has said he could have quit football had it not been for former U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
Wood, 24, won his first cap for the United States in 2013 while playing for 1860 Munich, the club he joined as a 14-year-old.
Although he failed to score in the 2013-14 season and the first half of the following term and was dropped to the reserves, Klinsmann started inviting him more regularly in 2014.
And after a move to Erzgebirge, Wood's form picked up and he began the revival that has led him to the Bundesliga.