A (relative) rags to riches story about teen Chivas midfielder Jorge Flores, that also brings up some questions about the serious issues regarding development of football talent pools in the US- worth a look, and nice to see that the issue is receiving some exposure in such a large media outlet.

To describe how Jorge Flores ended up here — an unknown teenager traveling to South America and Europe to play for his country after emerging quite literally from a cast of thousands to win a tryout with Chivas USA — a word is worth a thousand pictures. Sueño...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/sp...ewanted=1&_r=1