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This week, Mauricio Pochettino lamented not being “more involved” with the federation’s controversial and successful effort to suspend Folarin Balogun’s red card ban during the World Cup. Perhaps he’s also wishing he’d been more involved in recruiting dual-national Noahkai Banks, as the promising 20-year-old center back has officially made his one-time switch to represent Germany.

>I’ll hardly be surprised if Banks follows the career path of a similar US-eligible snub of yester-generation, Neven Subotić, who ultimately became a mainstay for Borussia Dortmund and earned 36 caps for Serbia.

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