Klinsmann clearly believes that he has a mandate to try to transform the state of soccer in the United States.
Perhaps this is what England needs: a generation of soccer dads, to transform the game here in the way "soccer moms" did in the US in the run-up to becoming world champions at the inaugural tournament in 1999.
David Beckham's move to Los Angeles was supposed to transform the status of American soccer.
"We are all heartbroken about the situation," said Mike Johnston, a state senator who worked with Mr. Roberts to transform the ruins of the Holly Square Shopping Center, burned down by Crips gang members in 2008, into basketball courts and a soccer field.
They can transform the world.
He inherited it from João Havelange, the Brazilian who transformed the wealth of soccer.
Those systems can integrate into anything that moves, which is what transforms the product, like a soccer ball or a jump rope, into a source of off-grid power.
Don Garber, the M.L.S. commissioner, said no player in the world could have done as much to transform soccer in the United States as Beckham.
That single glance produced one of those extraordinary passes that can transform a soccer game, can change the direction of a season or a qualifying round.
He also transformed the cleareyed, light-skinned face of German soccer -- and, some argue, of Germany itself.
These down-and-distance rules, combined with the establishment of the line of scrimmage, transformed the game from a variation of rugby or soccer into the distinct sport of American football.
