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Thursday-Sunday 8-11 December 2011

Mosconi Cup - USA Captain's Journal

This has been one of the greatest honors of my life. It's also a little intimidating and surreal, coaching and leading some of these great players that I myself have looked up to when I was younger. I also wanted to clear up some inaccuracies or perhaps miss-perceptions about my chosen role as the Captain. One of the items, is my nationality. So to clarify, I was indeed born in South Korea. My birth parents were both Korean. They split near the time of my birth, and I was adopted by my stepfather, who was a sergeant in the US Army. I was raised in Virginia from the time I was 2 months old till 21 when I moved to Orlando, Florida, my current home of the past 13 years. South Korea is one of the biggest allies of the US. In America, I grew up taking Tae Kwon Do and one thing you will notice in every Korean martial arts school, is there will be a USA flag always side by side with the Korean flag, this includes on every uniform that students wear as well. That's how strong the tie is between Korea and the USA. When I visited Korea, I received notoriety as a Korean American player, same as Jeanette Lee my fellow American pro player with Korean heritage. I have played for Korea in some exhibition events, and have been very proud and pleased of my acceptance of it even though I am a US citizen. I can say this, my selection as one of the youngest Captains of the Mosconi Cup and first Asian American, this is a pleasing thing to the Korean and Asian community. And though the masses have been very supportive, I wanted to explain the dynamics to those who may have any questions. I like to add, I played for Team USA five times myself, with a winning track record 4 out of the 5 times contributing to 4 wins for the USA in Mosconi Cup history. Special thanks to Johnny Archer, Mike Dechaine, Rodney Morris, Shawn Putnam, Shane Van Boening, and Europe's Darren Appleton for their public and vocal approval of this honor given to me. To be forward , anyone to doubt my loyalty to the USA Team or America I find very amusing as it is so far from the truth.

Please enjoy my re-cap of a Team USA Captain's log.

Charlie Williams, Korean American professional pool player.

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