"Could you do it again," the producer asks politely, "with more energy?"
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Luke Cyphers Luke Cyphers is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN Insider who covered the 2006 World Cup and the 2009 Confederations Cup. You can see some of his previous writing on soccer here, here and here.
Doug McIntyre Doug McIntyre has watched or attended almost every U.S. national team game since Paul Caligiuri's "shot heard 'round the world" in 1989. He began covering American and international soccer in 2002 and is a regular contributor to ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com and the Toronto Star.
