Why isn't there a single great soccer player from the US?

[phillycavsfan]

Title IX makes it possible for American women to dominate.

And at soccer being a girl's sport. It's a known fact soccer players pull the baddest bytches in the world.

 

[concise]

Something I'd like to throw out there that hasn't been touched ...and maybe because this attitude is kind of dying out a bit....but I remember growing up that soccer was viewed as somewhat of a "girls sport". It was viewed more similar to volleyball or something, obviously men and women can play, but the typical suburban family with 2 kids had a boy that played football and basketball and a girl that played soccer and volleyball.

Pretty sure that some of those little league teams are mixed-competition.....girls playing with boys....

^ I sometimes think that this hurt more than help soccer here. Like maybe it calcified the sport as something that is more female focused...forever. Maybe I'm just tripping....

To piggyback off that...I've not seen anyone really dive into the dichotomy between our womens team, and our mens team. Why is USWNT relatively successful while USMNT just average at best? Is there something that we can draw from this? I've heard it stated that the rest of the world generally couldn't give a fukk about womens soccer and that the US putting even a limited amount of resources into it is enough for us to be on par if not dominant. But I dunno. Is there anything more to glean?

Idiots...USA women are among the best because other countries don't spend money on women's sports. Our women don't just beat the opponents because they're better soccer players, it's because they're one of the few teams with the stamina to play at the same pace for 90 minutes. Most soccer players outside the USA don't have nearly the same facilities and time available. Women's international soccer is in the early, early stages around the world. USA Men don't get that same advantage.

Lol, these dudes must not have seen the French, Brazilian, or Japanese women's teams in recent World Cups and Olympics; if the US women's team doesn't evolve their play, they won't be winning titles for too much longer. Other countries are stepping it up now.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Canadian team is stepping it up too. But most of the world still see women's soccer as a joke so they don't spend the money.

 

[kingofnyc]

Idiots...USA women are among the best because other countries don't spend money on women's sports. Our women don't just beat the opponents because they're better soccer players, it's because they're one of the few teams with the stamina to play at the same pace for 90 minutes. Most soccer players outside the USA don't have nearly the same facilities and time available. Women's international soccer is in the early, early stages around the world. USA Men don't get that same advantage.

sounds like ur making excuses after excuses after excuses


listen... imma be 1 hundred
i dont know shyt about soccer nor im going to pretend too

but u cant tell me the US women team is only ranked number 1
cause all these other countries dont spend money on their female sports

u know thats bullshyt

i can understand a third world country not willing to invest in female sports-> soccer
but i aint trying to hear that shyt about all these european & south american countries who regard soccer as the be all end all of sports
in addition them countries in asia want to be number 1 in everything

breh..... ur

 

[phillycavsfan]

Just curious @kingofnyc...have you ever been outside the United States?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

listen... imma be 1 hundred
i dont know shyt about soccer nor im going to pretend too

isnt that exactly what you're doing

 

[RubioTheCruel]

not enough kids are getting elite training from a young age

This is it. As soon as this happens in America it will be a world power.

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

A lot of soccer snobs in here catching feelings

The US does not care about soccer, nor do most American's care to change this sentiment.
End of statement.
The game reminds most of us of little kids running around aimlessly, and eating orange peels after a 0-0 tie (My U-12 brehs remember this ). You can sit here and argue that most Americans are stupid, that soccer players get $$ and bytches, that its a beautiful sport, but it wouldn't matter. We dont care- and kids eventually play sports that their adult parents DO care about or watch.

To be quite honest, weve got much more important things to worry about rather than adding another sport to our repertoire

 

[kingofnyc]

Just curious @kingofnyc...have you ever been outside the United States?

yes sir... my pops is west indian
-been to bout a dozen caribbean islands & England

 

[Trip]

Also isn't there a guy on Italy that grew up in the US?

 

[William Heavy]

Idiots...USA women are among the best because other countries don't spend money on women's sports. Our women don't just beat the opponents because they're better soccer players, it's because they're one of the few teams with the stamina to play at the same pace for 90 minutes. Most soccer players outside the USA don't have nearly the same facilities and time available. Women's international soccer is in the early, early stages around the world. USA Men don't get that same advantage.

Pretty much. Other countries that push their boys into soccer, tell their girls to stay in the house and learn to cook and clean and leave sports alone. Like in latin america. Tell a latino dad to send his daughter on a road trip over the weekend to play a tournament. He'll be like "uh huh, bunch of dudes trying to finger my daughter at the holiday inn after the game, nah, Consuelo get your ass back in the kitchen and make me some empanadas gotdamit"

We are good a womens soccer because we encourage our girls to play sports. We even got bullshyt pro leagues like the WNBA that lose money in order to give girls good role models. Other countries have caught up though. Like Japan, bunch of little chicks but the gave us that work few years ago. And Brazil, a soccer crazed country that did not give their girls attention finally started giving them structure and they came up.

 

[kingofnyc]

isnt that exactly what you're doing

how dose me not knowing anything bout the soccer ... have anything to do with US women being ranked #1

 

[Trip]

Fwiw, lacrosse has take over in the northeast. Baseball is fading here.

 

[Trip]

Fwiw, lacrosse has take over in the northeast. Baseball is fading here.

 

[phillycavsfan]

A lot of soccer snobs in here catching feelings

The US does not care about soccer, nor do most American's care to change this sentiment.
End of statement.

More people watched USA-Ghana than Game 5 of the NBA Finals.