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Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

Nowadays there are too many players who can't get a contract elsewhere, who come to England and just take the money.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.

At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.