Roger Bennett: This is American Fiasco, a show where the reality never lives up to the dream. I remember joking around and clicking my heels three times together like The Wizard of Oz thinking, "Can I go there? Can we get to the World Cup?" We were never going to be the players that would ever represent. All we were were fans, we were the spectators. It was stationed in some islands in the middle of this sea that we could never even imagine of jumping on a ship and getting out there. John Harkes: It was something that was unattainable, it was unreachable.
Roger Bennett: Did the World Cup loom large in your life as a kid? John Harkes: We would catch an old game on a tape or something from Liverpool's old '80s team. He'd head to the Scotts American club along with pretty much everyone he knew. Roger Bennett: When he wasn't playing soccer or working at the local fish and chips shop, John Harkes was watching the game. Roger Bennett: Playing soccer in the street.
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Your mom yelling out the windows in the apartment buildings, just yelling for dinner and you're still not home because you're playing for four or five hours after school. We got the ball stolen by the police, and then had to have our dads go down and get the ball back again so we could play again that night. We got kicked off the baseball fields, we got kicked off the American football fields. Roger Bennett: They brought that passion for soccer with them and handed it on down from generation to generation and onto John Harkes. Speaker: Only one town in the United States has developed three US national team players, they also have some pretty good fish and chips.
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Kearny's a factory town, 35 minutes outside New York City, and when John Harkes was growing up, it was a town full of the kids and grandkids of Scottish and Irish immigrants, people who arrived in the late 1800s to work in the thread in linoleum mills.
He came from a place that calls itself soccer town USA, Kearny, New Jersey. After all, Harkes was born to play on the US national team. Roger Bennett: John Harkes, he was off the team and it all seems so sudden and ludicrous.
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