Originally Posted by Monticore:
Wemby doesn’t exist I guess
That’s the guy who said Durant was his “welcome to the NBA moment” because of how fast and elusive he was for his size. So, yeah, they don’t make them like KD [Reply]
Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED:
The issue with US soccer is that we treat youth soccer different than every other country in the world. We don’t groom young talent. We just pick the kids with the richest parents to play club level and charge the parents an arm and a leg. Every other country finds amazing youth talent and pays them to start playing professionally before they are even teenagers. The pay to play system in this country is what needs to be fixed
American soccer is good for two things:
1) beating Mexico
2) getting suburban parents to spend a lot of money and thousands of hours for their kids to play soccer. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
And you think in this massive country of ours that even after you take away all those athletes, our next wave of athletes are worse than Uruguay? You think there isn’t, for example, a huge and growing Hispanic population that probably have soccer as their #1 sport? Yeah it makes it harder for us to be the best of the best, but there aren’t excuses for us soccer to be this bad. There is plenty of athletic talent that could and would prioritize soccer.
You don't get it do you? We just don't care enough. Very few kidd dream of being a fucking soccer star. They'd get laughed at. In other countries soccer is god. The top tier talent is simply oversaturating the big 3 sports because those are tye ones kids dream of playing. These breeds levels of competition down to early playing levels onward and up. Competition brings this out in the other sports that we dominate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED:
They’re only one win away from finally ending a tournament out of the red on the goal differential side. Will be interesting to see if they can pull it off.
Still more worried about how pretty the soccer is than actual results. That’s how you end up getting grouped by Panama with far superior talent, yeah. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Still more worried about how pretty the soccer is than actual results. That’s how you end up getting grouped by Panama with far superior talent, yeah.
Or finish dead last in your group at all of the World Cups you’ve played in (which is a pathetic 2) like Canada. [Reply]