David McNabb is a buddy who worked with me at The Dallas Morning News back in the day. Yesterday, he saw something I wrote about Jurgen Klinsmann and told me a quick story via Facebook. It's so quintessentially Klinsi. Remember, this was around the time Klinsmann was discovering the United States on summer drives.

LIVESTRONG Sporting Park for its opening match.
The brand new LIVESTRONG Sporting Park becomes the 16th venue in the United States to host the U.S. team in the CONCACAF Gold Cup and just the second soccer specific stadium to do so after The Home Depot Center hosted a pair of group games in 2007.

We exchange three questions with Robert Jonas of Quake, Rattle and Goal in order to get some insider perspective on the San Jose Earthquakes as the Chicago Fire head to Buck Shaw Stadium on tonight. Robert's answer to my first question is below and the other five questions in the exchange are after the break.

DALLAS, Texas The highest level of soccer competition in the world is coming to Dallas for the Green Soccer Bowl tournament, Feb. 26-27 at the Cotton Bowl. The weekend tournament will pit the national teams from Nigeria, Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama against each other. Nigeria will be using the tournament as a tune-up [.