Apparently, I’m one of the few people who has a problem with U.S. Soccer — well, Jurgen Klinsmann, actually — recruiting German-Americans (with an emphasis on the German) to fill slots on the national team.

Repudiating young American-born/raised players in the process.

JK is at it, still.

The curious, 4-3 victory over The Netherlands tonight was notable (to me) for Klinsmann playing five German-Americans — in addition to the Norwegian-American and the Icelandic-American.

Is the U.S. so bereft of talent born or raised in the States that Klinsmann has to spend hours and hours poring over every European (especially German) roster looking for guys with American-sounding surnames?

Apparently, so.

Let’s recap:

—Danny Williams. Born and raised in Karlsruhe; now plays for Reading in England, which perhaps lets him work on his English. Played for the German Under 15 national team before Jurgen ran him down and got him to take out U.S. citizenship. That’s 15 appearances with the U.S. team; he probably knows the other guys’ names by now. Maybe says “yo” instead of “wie gehts?”

—Alfredo Morales. Born in Berlin of Peruvian/American and German heritage. Affiliated with Hertha Berlin as a kid and a pro until 2013-14, when he went to Ingolstadt. Not good enough, apparently, to play for German age-group sides, so at least the only national anthem he’s stood to attention for while wearing his soccer duds is the U.S.’s.

—John Brooks. Another Berlin-born Hertha Berlin guy. Tall defender. Scored a goal in the World Cup. Still 22. Played for the German U20 team in 2012, while he considered how much he wanted to play in an American kit. Up to 11 appearances with JK now.

—Timmy Chandler. Born in Frankfurt, plays for Eintracht Frankfurt. A defender, 25. Apparently never played for a German age-group team before deciding he was an American. Must have had a dull-witted agent.

—Fabian Johnson. A Munich kid. Played with five levels of German age-group teams before he discovered his inner American. Seems like an old hand, now, with 30 appearances as a Yank.

All of them started, aside from Williams, who came on as a substitute.

A fifth starter, Aron Johannsson, grew up in Iceland and played for a national age-group team there, now with AZ Alkmaar … and a seventh from-somewhere-else guy played, Mix Diskerud, the Norwegian-American, who played for Norway’s U18 and U19 national teams (but is now with MLS’s New York City, which means he’s less interesting to Jurgen by the minute).

Shouldn’t the goal for the U.S. national team be U.S. players?

Gyasi Zardes played nearly all of the game in Amsterdam, and his parents are from Ghana. But he was born in Torrance, California, and went to Luezinger High School and played at Cal State Bakersfield. That makes him a U.S. soccer player. Not an import.

Ventura Alvarado and Michael Orozco, Mexican parents, born in the U.S. Fine by me.

The U.S. national team has been built on those guys all along, going back to 1950 — the first generation born in a new country who then learned the game — in the U.S.

Klinsmann does this differently. He goes after guys who grew up in Germany, learned to play in Germany and (apparently) speak German as their mother tongue.

That makes something of a joke of the concept of “national team”.

Two more guys who played, before we go.

—Bobby Wood. A 22-year-old kid from Hawaii who played club soccer in California before jumping over to 1860 Munich, came on as a substitute and scored the winning goal against the Dutch.

—DeAndre Yedlin. Born in Seattle, played club ball in Washington, played at the University of Akron for a year, played in Major League Soccer, just this year has gone over to Tottenham, in England. By most accounts, played very well in the 4-3 victory.

So, apparently the U.S., a nation of 300 million, does have a couple of useful young players whose background in soccer is American, not German and not European. Two, anyway.

We get a sense, though, that those guys will continue to be the exception that proves the rule.

Jurgen Klinsmann doesn’t quite believe a person can play soccer if he grew up in the States.  Though we had more than two decades (and every World Cup since 1990) that suggested guys with that sort of background could be quite competitive, thank you, on the international stage.

However, if you have played for a German or European club Klinsmann knows and recognizes — well, then, you must be good. He will chase you and wrestle you to the ground to get you to play for him.

That is an unfortunate characteristic to be found in a U.S. national team coach, who on a daily basis shows his contempt for soccer players who learned the game in the New World, not the Old.