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A pair of returning Gavilan College football players sauntered into head coach Spencer Gilford’s office Friday afternoon after a volunteer weightlifting session. Sweating profusely, the duo took an empty seat and stared straight ahead at some summer practice film.

Phyllis and Jamie Wyeth were alternately looking at the small monitor to their right and down the long Belmont Park stretch beyond the finish line to their left. The colt that had been raised at Point Lookout, Pa., their Chadds Ford farm, was just a few lengths off the lead with 200 yards to run in the Belmont Stakes.

So this is what Juergen Klinsmann meant when he talked about developing a U.S. style of soccer.