By: Derek Rae, ESPN

I hear often from fans in the U.S. that they long for the day when "one of their own" gets a chance to coach a properly big club in one of Europe's foremost leagues. Perhaps some can be excused for not being fully aware that they already have one.

Pellegrino Matarazzo and VfB Stuttgart fit each other like hand and glove, not least because both fall under the radar for anyone not paying full attention. Matarazzo is an Italian American from New Jersey. That he forged his own independent path as a young man playing lower-league football in Germany, far away from the domestic politics of U.S. Soccer or the goldfish bowl of Major League Soccer, shouldn't make him less interesting. On the contrary, in fact.

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