We also shouldn't have the inferiority complex that anywhere in Europe > MLS. Or the coaching and talent is automatically better than MLS because...it is Europe. More Americans have an inferiority than a superiority complex when it comes to soccer. Which badly holds us back. At least many of the Yanks Abroad people do. We should start having some pride in our league. Sorry, but MLS will be developing our future. Not League One(thank god), the Championship, or some Euro league. Rodgers is off the grid now. If he were in MLS his reclamation would be easier to follow. Now he fell through Europe's cracks.

Gaudette ended up on the Puerto Rican National team because of his years playing for the D2 Puerto Rican Islanders. Any American is eligible to play for PR if they live there for at least two years. If you look at PR's roster you'll see mostly American-born Puerto Rican Islander players. Gaudette recently won some praise in Europe for playing out of his mind in a friendly against Spain in Puerto Rico. Spain won 2-1, but it would have been 8-1 without Gaudette.

You fail to mention that MLS does not exist in a vacuum like the NBA, MLB, NHL, or the NFL. Wondo could of let his contract run out and taken his services anywhere in the world. Like a number of Americans have done. But MLS is stable and offering better contract these days, and the money isn't quite what it use to be in places like Denmark, Norway, Germany, and Sweden. So you can understand why he took the deal. MLS is afraid of FA because it could overvalue the decent American player. Creating a bidding war for mediocre talent. The way the EPL does with English player transfer fees and wages. You could end up ruining MLS by clubs spending too much cap room for decent American players and driving out the better foreign players that the league have been able to get on the cheap. You have to be very careful. MLS is being very smart about this. I don't believe you get it.