I can ' t tell if you ' re making this up or not . I want to believe . <| sep |> this shower power ad is beyond cringe <| sep |> And comparing Arena to Wambach is dumb and lazy . Hrm . Arena has only talked about needing the American development system to be better . Both Wambach ' s and Donovan ' s expounded points mentioned this . Neither wanted spots available to domesticallydeveloped players given to a dualnational who only earned it by virtue of being developed abroad and possession of a U . S . passport . wasn ' t knocking any foreign born player given he played foreign born players and will continue to do so . While I agree with your end sentiment , given that Arena ' s words were very similar to Wambach ' s and Donovan ' s , I find your reasoning to be pretty flimsy . Saying Arena fields foreign players so he must not be xenophobic unlike , presumably Wambach is the I ' m not racist , I have black friends ! defense in this conversation . Both Arena and Wambach used language to delineate preferred players from nonpreferred players foreign guys by Wambach , American by Arena . Different phrases , exact same intention . Both kneejerk , offthecuff word choices that can be taken a terrible way by people looking for sinister motives . And to be sure , this is an issue that doesn ' t lend itself to an easy distillation . So it ' s hard to say in 30 seconds or even a minute how one feels while also couching it in a preemptive defense against accusations of being a terrible person . But to separate Arena and give him a pass based pretty much on your character judgment is a gross disservice to other players and fans who agree with Arena , Wambach , Donovan , and the countless of others who think representing our country and its soccer programs should have a slightly higher bar than simply holding an American passport either be developed by this system or have an emotional , patriotic stake in the program ' s affairs . That ' s not an unreasonable ask , is it ?