The All Minnesota XI

Each Minnesota professional sports team proudly boasts at least one native on their roster. Joe Mauer didn’t go far from home to sign for the Twins and Adam Thielen suits up on any given Sunday for the Vikings. The Wild, Wolves, and Lynx all have their own home town heroes as well. The Loons were the latest professional team to join their brothers and sisters in the Twin Cities and wasted to time getting some Minnesotan blood on the roster.

Minnesota isn’t exactly known for being a hotbed for soccer talent, but that doesn’t mean we can’t produce some stars. The Loons have academy players in the pipeline and will be adding more in the next several years, but that’s still a few years away.…