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How The Smallest World Cup Nation Recruited Its Team

Growing up in the Netherlands, Jurgen Locadia envisioned himself wearing those iconically vibrant orange jerseys at a World Cup. He played for the country's youth national squads, was selected for the senior team a few times and started his professional career with Dutch clubs. So when peers tried to enlist him to play for Curaçao, a tiny island nation off the coast of Venezuela, he initially brushed them off. "I always had the hope to play for the Dutch squad," Locadia, a forward for USL Championship side Miami FC, told me recently. But his friend and current Miami FC teammate, Eloy Room — wh...