Whicker: U.S. soccer might be getting a Blessing from LAFC someday

LOS ANGELES — Latif Blessing grew up in Nankese, a village in southern Ghana that numbers about 5,000 people and about 10,000 eyes that were trained on the World Cup in 2010.
That was the year the national team, the Black Stars, got to the quarterfinals. A small West African country became one of the eight most successful soccer nations in the wide, wide world.
“We had one TV in the village,” Blessing said. “Everyone would come see the game. But you had to take a shower b