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I disagree. We can beat anyone in the world and we have
Marvel
Psalm 149:5-9
Yep, and that is what their club pays them...doesn't even count endorsements. If there was no cap in the NBA. Bron would command 50 mil on the open market.
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It's common fukking sense, if all the kids that play football & basketball in the US were instead funneled towards soccer we'd be a lot better off than we are now. The kids that make it to the NBA/NFL are the most driven and typically the best athletes, is it really that hard to believe a percentage of them would have excelled at soccer? Even if it's a small percentage like 5-10% of these kids excelling at the game we'd be a lot better than we are now.
It's amazing to me people can watch the athletes in the NFL and the NBA, see all the creativity they display, all the drive they've shown to get to where they are, and not think some of them would be good at soccer had they played it from Day 1 and got the coaching needed.
Quarterback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOaI06zAvg
CACarot
Where is Princess Fajita
As someone said our best athletes play superior sports. Basketball and football. Why somebody gonna waste they talents and genes playing footsie with a bunch of international faqs
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US Soccer is sitting on a gold mine.
America has some of the best athletes in the world but most of them are geared towards football, basketball and baseball (outfielders). Not just talking about Black Americans, but all Americans.
What they need to do is start going into immigrant communities and start dumping money into youth clubs, training facilities, and schools. There has been a lot of progress on this front in the last two decades but I would argue that it needs to be exponentially greater.
Look at US women's soccer where the female base has been established and funded. Most athletic girls who are into team sports are guided toward's soccer and the results pay off. They are always in contention.
It's pretty amazing that the US Men's team is ranked as high as it is due to the absolute overall lack of athletic base and support for this sport.
America has some of the best athletes in the world but most of them are geared towards football, basketball and baseball (outfielders). Not just talking about Black Americans, but all Americans.
What they need to do is start going into immigrant communities and start dumping money into youth clubs, training facilities, and schools. There has been a lot of progress on this front in the last two decades but I would argue that it needs to be exponentially greater.
Look at US women's soccer where the female base has been established and funded. Most athletic girls who are into team sports are guided toward's soccer and the results pay off. They are always in contention.
It's pretty amazing that the US Men's team is ranked as high as it is due to the absolute overall lack of athletic base and support for this sport.
thatrapsfan
Superstar
We go over this on an annual basis. The top developers of soccer talent in the world aren't where they are based on pure athleticism. The American program seems to have realized this anyway with what they've tried to do with Klinsmann.
It's common fukking sense, if all the kids that play football & basketball in the US were instead funneled towards soccer we'd be a lot better off than we are now. The kids that make it to the NBA/NFL are the most driven and typically the best athletes, is it really that hard to believe a percentage of them would have excelled at soccer? Even if it's a small percentage like 5-10% of these kids excelling at the game we'd be a lot better than we are now.
It's amazing to me people can watch the athletes in the NFL and the NBA, see all the creativity they display, all the drive they've shown to get to where they are, and not think some of them would be good at soccer had they played it from Day 1 and got the coaching needed.
It's a different type of athlete that excels in soccer than in the NFL and NBA. And even so, there are plenty of elite athletes in soccer (Aaron Lennon, Shawn Wright-Phillips) who are trash footballers.
It's easy to say we need better technical players, but it's not that simple either. The game of soccer evolves rather quickly. A footballing nation's strengths can become obsolete in the span of just a World Cup cycle or two.
It's not about the athletes. When the US plays internationally in terms of pure athletic ability they aren't outmatched. It's the skill level which needs to be taught at a very young age by people who know what they are doing.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
the onus of an elite football program is coaching, not playing. playing is the easy part.
we don't have great football minds in this country.
athletes got americans TO the world cup, but training and only training will take americans further. people forget that 1990 was the first world cup the US team played in after 1950. it wasn't because people weren't playing the game, it was because it wasn't (and still isn't, but it's improved) being taught properly
we don't have great football minds in this country.
athletes got americans TO the world cup, but training and only training will take americans further. people forget that 1990 was the first world cup the US team played in after 1950. it wasn't because people weren't playing the game, it was because it wasn't (and still isn't, but it's improved) being taught properly
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
there are a lot of reasons, but i hate this nonsense.
The sport is not life in France, Germany, or England. Shoot, its not even life in Brazil. Im not sure its even the most popular sport in France.
What those countries have is great organization, which the US lacks as well as great youth coaching.
The US follows the template of basketball, baseball, and football and it doesnt work for a sport like soccer where you need proper instruction from an early age.
mastermind
Rest In Power Kobe
this thinking is a big reason why the US will never be great at the sport.Mind you though, I don't watch MLS, just the Euro leagues. Watching MLS is like watching NBDL
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Quarterback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOaI06zAvg
The stupidity of people who think that having the best athletes play the sport, or having it be the country's #1 sport is a guarantee of success. Morons, nothing is a guarantee. Just like when the Yankees spend 250 million dollars on their team, yet still miss the playoffs.
Black America should have sovereignty and its own Olympic and World Cup team, that way the cacs could finally stop coattailing black accomplishments.
Black America should have sovereignty and its own Olympic and World Cup team, that way the cacs could finally stop coattailing black accomplishments.
Would Messi have made it as a soccer star if he grew up in the US? We're so infatuated with "athletes" and dudes build is far from the American standard of an athlete