When It Rains...

American Soccer Daily is reporting that former U.S. international Eddie Lewis will be joining fellow American Benny Feilhaber at Premiership club Derby County. This news comes only hours after the club announced that Feilhaber had received international clearance from the German and English FAs. It appears now that for some English clubs, when it rains, it pours. Derby County now joins the likes of Reading and Fulham as Premier League clubs with two or more American internationals on the books.

This is a rather bizarre trend if I might say so myself, but I certainly can't complain. What's even stranger is that Derby had also earlier attempted to purchase Eddie Johnson from MLS' Kansas City Wizards (Johnson nixed the deal). America is now seen by many clubs as a bargain basement for solid talent. Whether this is a legitimate reflection of the talent of these American players is debateable, but it certainly indicates both a growing respect for American soccer as well as the continued ignorance of the technical skill and value of many of our best internationals. Change will still be a long time coming.