He could easily lean back in his seat, relax and let the film speak for itself. It is a documentary about the Panama Canal, its history and construction -- a project the Americans completed after the French had given up. It is a hymn to America, his country. But Jürgen Klinsmann, the new coach of the US national soccer team, is sitting bolt upright in his seat. When the lights go on and the question-and-answer session begins, he immediately asks the first question.
"How many ships pass through the Panama Canal every day?" Klinsmann wants to know. He is sitting in the front row of the theater at the Centro de Visitantes de Miraflores, the visitors' center for the Panama Canal, while his players lounge in the seats behind him. When he was standing on the visitors'...
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