WATCH: Balboa Discusses His Soccer Origins My dad watered that grass pretty green and made sure that we knew what we wanted, how to do it, when to do it, and the work ethic." They said if you water your own grass, you can make it as green as you want. I wanted to go play soccer and my dad just fueled the fire. I didn't want to play football every day. I didn’t want to go play baseball every day. "I played football, baseball, but nothing, nothing, gave me the joy and the smile of wanting to go out every day. "I played every other sport possible," he said. Growing up in the seventies and eighties, Marcelo was an all-around athlete. He wouldn't sleep much because dad was taking us outside to play soccer. "Dad would come home from a graveyard shift,” Balboa told Jordan Angeli and Charlie Davies on a recent episode of The U.S. Thanks to Luis, who played professionally in Argentina and made at least one appearance on his country's B team, his children gained respect for the sport. National Team player - man or woman - to reach 100 international appearances, a National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee, and an original member of Major League Soccer with the Colorado Rapids in 1996. Balboa, who is of Argentinean heritage, is a three-time FIFA World Cup veteran (1990, 19), the first U.S. Soccer celebrates Hispanic Heritage month, it is quite appropriate we profile Balboa's career.
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