Argentine connection helps MLS build talent level

Argentine players are making an exodus for MLS at a higher percentage than any other international players.

Eighteen players have made the move, which is more than any other nationality. Agent Alejandro Taraciuk, who worked for the MLS before returning to Buenos Aires, has been facilitating the moves.

Deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis said places such as South America — mainly Argentina and Brazil — were natural places to unearth talent. He gave those nations high marks in terms of not only skill and athletic ability, but technical grasp of the game.

As far as he is concerned, Taraciuk's move has been a boon to the league.

"A couple years ago, Alejandro indicated he wanted to go back to Argentina for personal reasons," Gazidis told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.

"The MLS has now become a big story in Argentina. We decided it would be really good for us to have a consultant down there who really knew the inside track of the way the league worked, the way our salary system worked, and who knew about the people and knew the teams in Argentina. Once you seed the process like that, once you have success, and hopefully players have a good experience in MLS, what happens is it becomes a virtual cycle that makes the assimilation process easier for the next player."

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