Can we get back to this crap? Do you really believe this? Maybe you do since you have admitted that you don’t watch the USWNT games.
He's an unabashed soccer apologist. Anything to detract or take away from the glory of men's soccer in this country is forbidden.
He has no clue. Pitt men would beat them by 30.
There’s men’s soccer glory in this country? Who knew?? That said, I’m hoping for a women’s world Cup/ Men’s Gold Cup double header next Sunday.
Yeah I did a lot of work in Frisco at that time and know all about that. In reality, it was an organized scrimmage/practice and the women didn’t even know score was being kept. Some overambitious social media person pushed it out as if it was a real game with a real score.
Take the US Women vs a group of pro athletes like football and basketball players, and the women would have their way. But against the USMNT, it would be a no contest. It wouldn’t be pretty.
I dont think so, just based on the fact that how many soccer games, despite how supposedly mismatched they are, end up even 10-0?
Well the Cleveland Browns have gotten paid way more for going 0-16 or 1-15, so....
We don’t expect them to be good moreso then we question the fact that we are worse than countries the size of Rhode Island.
Well....the fact it is now what, 30-40 years where men's soccer has made concerted grass roots efforts to develop players......and the fact that the best team and talent was like 12 years ago, it has gone down hill. Yeah, we are the US. We have resources upon resources that is more than just being a large country. We are sports crazed. But the fact is, soccer is not attracting that urban or southern rural black kid who is choosing football and basketball, not so much baseball, it is not attracting the working class white kids who are choosing football and baseball, let alone hoops. It is mostly prep school types, but even then their best athletes (at least in the north) are probably choosing hockey.
Like I said, India and China are huge in population and can't compete with tiny countries like the USA so there's more to it than size.
Another part of that is the culture of travel soccer, where you have to pay a lot to play and the college coaches don't really recruit from the teams where you can play for free (high school). And even then, even if they played, there's no guarantee "urban black kids" would dominate, I laugh when people act like LeBron would dominate soccer if he had played since childhood, maybe he'd suck?
he forgot to "borrow" from the 0 which makes you borrow from the 5, that extra step kills me in subtraction too. I mean anyone can borrow from a 2 or a 3 but you borrow from a 0, mark it a 9 then you got to do the second step and borrow again, it's a killer..
What the hell did Klinsman do to the USMNT. At least the USMNT was making quarterfinals of the World Cup at times. Now this program seems to be worse. Where would this team be if Pulisic didn’t go to Europe at a young age to join an Academy?
True, I went to the GC in Ravens Stadium in 2015, 33000 showed up, but it looked empty but I loved the $250 club seats for $47.
Actually to run US Soccer I think they need someone from another sport, a successful sport. Someone from USA Hockey, at least they have experience in building something
Let me say this. I’m not an authority but I am someone with credible experience on the topic, who has been involved coaching in suburban youth sports for 25 years and involved in HS Sports for 15 years while coaching HS for the last few years. I’m in an area that is not starving for talent or starving to get players to fill leagues or rosters in any sport. Kids start playing soccer at 4-5 years of age. Some of them quit and go to hockey and other sports. But the best players of that crop mostly stay with soccer because they see that they are excelling and have no desire to leave the sport. I’ve coached mostly girls and they don’t quit for other sports. The best female athletes play soccer. But I’ve also coached boys. I lost three kids to other sports. 2 went to hockey. They were smallish but decent athletes. I wasn’t upset to lose them. The 3rd kid didn’t give up soccer until 9th grade, when he sprouted up in height and shifted his focus to basketball. He’s currently 6’6” so it’s hard to argue his choice.
Exactly my point. But India would crush pretty much anyone else in cricket.
I won't say it again as much, some people here think I'm lying, but where I live, more kids try out for soccer than football, it's pretty rare for a kid to leave soccer for football, even though it does happen, and the teams are loaded with black kids, boys and girls. For every kids baseball game you see, there are probably 100 soccer games. One thing I do notice is that there are lots of Hispanics, but not many in the organized leagues as much as high school teams where of course is free, and Hispanic girls participation is low, I kind of think some of that is cultural, different areas value soccer differently. Howard County Maryland brags about being a soccer hotbed since the '60s and plenty of kids play and a good number have gone pro as well.
You have a sense of entitlement IMO, just because of all the reasons you site, there is still no guarantee of success. It's like when Sargent Elias tells Chris in "Platoon", "we're going to lose this war", Chris replies, "Us? Lose? Not US?" Like as if the USA is guaranteed and entitled to win everything all the time. Personally, from where the USA was in soccer when I was growing up, I'm pretty impressed with how popular it is now and actually how good we've become, USA didn't even make the World Cup, from 1952-1992, I think?
