and I bet this school got an all black football team. we have a school like this in socal called notre dame and all they do is recruit inner city kids. how come they can't offer scholarships to the mexicans for soccer, is all Im sayin. mexicans are ALWAYS at the park playing soccer the way black kids are playing basketball. makes no sense. maybe all the scholarships are used on the inner city kids for basketball and football, I dunno.Good point. Where I'm from one of the high school's that has been competing for championships for years is Bellarmine (San Jose). It's a private school with a bunch of rich kids that look like something out of 90210. I'm sure they have hired european coaches to help their kids.
Their campus looks like this
In contrast, the teams that they play against in the championship come from these farm towns where the population is majority mexican (Watsonville, Salinas), and are regular public schools. These kids are taught the game by their dads who have 9-5 blue collar jobs, a lot of which are in the agricultural industry. Most of these kids just end up getting regular jobs or playing community college ball after high school. The raw talent is there, but what would happen if they got legit coaching like other kids?
C'mon breh
You're better than that
16 million in totals if you combine ESPN, Univision, and WatchESPN.
MLS ratings and attendance keep going up so much that ESPN just paid 250 million for the broadcast rights. EPL ratings on NBC Sports was up this season.
But sure, NOBODY watches soccer in America.
16 million in totals if you combine ESPN, Univision, and WatchESPN.
MLS ratings and attendance keep going up so much that ESPN just paid 250 million for the broadcast rights. EPL ratings on NBC Sports was up this season.
But sure, NOBODY watches soccer in America.
Breh, you are comparing a national team that only plays once a year, to a series that occurs every year between two specific cities?!
I am sure that some swimming and gymnastic olympic events obliterate the WC viewership. Does that mean that the US really cares about swimming and gymnastics?
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?
yall really gonna compare african american athletes to mexicans?
