PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The last time Cory Gibbs was flanked by a group of sportswriters in the Ocean State, he was probably discussing how his Brown University Bears would play against Yale or Dartmouth. Two years later, and just a Timmy Howard punt from his old stomping grounds, the 23-year-old defender finds himself comparing the man-to-man marking of the German Bundesliga compared to the zonal defense the U.S. National Team employs in its flat-back four while talking to reporters at the Westin Hotel.
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