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- John McLaren, Manager
- Steve Henderson, Coach
- Art Howe, Coach
- Bruce Hurst, Coach
- Wally Joyner, Coach
Seems very odd.
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Nothing new to this sport or any other.
Russians coaching American gymnastics in the Olympics, Piazza was a coach for the Italians in the last WBC I think, international soccer is mayhem with internationals coaching foreign teams...US men's coach isn't an American.
It's very common in all sports and countries.
Barry Larkin is coaching Team Brazil. I thought that was a little strange as well
American coaches have been a part of the Chinese WBC team since the inaugural WBC year.
Allen
Never knew that....cool.
Better question is why did they let Americans play for team Israel.
Better question is why did they let Americans play for team Israel.
WBC seems to follow the olympic rule - as a U.S. citizen, you can play for another country if you have some amount of relative ties to that country. I like that because some stars who aren't good enough to make team USA can still play in the tournament for the country that they have some required amount of family ties.
The only ties that you had to have was that you had to be jewish.