I guess I could've placed this in MLS thread, but decided to pull up this old thread. It happened with African born Steve Zakuani in 2009......It also happened with African born Danny Mwanga in 2010....Then along came African born, American raised Darlington Nagbe in 2011 and it happened again.
New year; new hype job: Jamaican "superhero" emerges in U.S soccer.....Only 6 goals as a pro, but he's already been dubbed
Darren "Magic" Mattocks by the Marxists at ESPN and they even featured him SportsCenter last week.
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/mls/story/_/id/8167959/mls-darren-mattocks-new-star-vancouver
Now this gem:
Darren Mattocks obliterated the ‘what if the best athletes played soccer’ meme
http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/...what-if-the-best-athletes-played-soccer-meme/
Why all the hype? He did the impossible, I suppose. He scored two goals against a crappy Toronto franchise and he's black...Hopefully he really is too good for MLS, so he'll leave North America and never return. Let him go to France or England, or wherever?
Warning, however: DWF's over at Big Soccer predicted all the Major clubs in Europe would be frothing at the mouth to sign Zakuani and Mwanga a few years ago and neither is even considered a real good MLS player, let alone a transfer target for Manchester United, AC Milan or Real Madrid. You can even throw Juan Agudelo into the same grouping (wildly overhyped slug), although he's from Colombia, I think?
Caption: New Poster for Major League Soccer?