the biggest problem, imo, is cost in the USA. getting good at soccer is expensive as fuck. we really slice our player pool there, and then the players who make it aren't making it on merit always. as opposed to brazil where you play soccer 24/7 using a milk carton and the most hungry and talented make it out
Once again the USA embarrasses themselves on the world stage Seems to be happening quite a bit the past few months
For reference the US losing to Trinidad in soccer was like Texas losing to KU in football. It should cost everyone their fucking job.
Burn the system down. Burn it all down. The failures across the board for US Soccer are myriad. Time to go back to the drawing board and develop a new system for player identification and development. Sad that Bradley, Dempsey, Howard, Cameron, etc. won't play in another WC for the US. This is a huge setback for the USMNT.
This would be genuinely sad if our team wasn't so terrible and downright hateable outside a few players. We didn't deserve to go.
Dempsey is old but he actually looked like he cared tonight. Cameron is one of our better players and was on the bench because the coach is a fucking moron who seemingly places value on playing in the MLS. But yeah Bradley can get fucked and Howard isn't what he used to be.
also believe I remember the USMNT thread bitching about Dempsey lallygagging in least one other wcq before tongith
Rooting for or expecting to win? France isn't close to a favorite right now. Brazil, Germany, Spain, maybe Belgium(probably will choke) in the top group. Portugal probably deserve to be 4th.
That was stunning. I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I love the camaraderie that comes with us soccer playing in world cup games. This is very disappointing
Bad coach Over-coddled player pool that has largely been told they are great despite minimal achievements. A culture that doesn't demand more. And "best athletes" is not the issue. We need kids that grow up dying to play, and a system that identifies their passion and rewards it by sponsoring development opportunities, while rewarding technical quality rather than strength and speed. That is how you get good at *this* sport. And as long as that can't be found in the U.S., our most promising talents need to get the fuck to Europe post-haste.
There's too much money in all the wrong places in US Soccer. Kids aren't getting identified and developed unless they have money and can travel/play on extremely expensive club and academy teams. Merit has less and less to do with the guys being selected for our national teams and ODP. The system is broken, and that - more than anything - is what is holding US Soccer back.
At least the CFB writers I follow won't talk about how much better soccer is than football. I'll still watch the WC
One goal from like fucking Miami. And slow on the own goal. He is done. Out to pasture. Brad should have been in there, but he’s not the answer for 2022.
That only happens when you begin with a pool that includes the "best athletes". Your model is basically what the US has done for 30 years and that hasn't worked.
No he is totally old but how do you not have an ability to score more than one goal versus T&T? Thats whats fucking with me.
It's not athleticism, it's development. Messi is 5'7" 160, Neymar is 5'9" 150. Even someone regarded as huge, da gawd Lukaku is 6'3" 205. The college systems ruins development. An 17/18 yearr old national talent should be training with professionals day and night. The rest of the world pulls kids from full time school before they are teenagers.
There has been an increased amount of talent coming from the US since the academy system has been put in place vs the AAU style system before that. Its just that a lot of it is too young to play on usmnt and there hasnt been a cohesive system to maximize it either.
The US has no identity. Even with the Academy system, we have no clear fundamentals that all coaches can fall back on and teach consistently. The Academies have been an improvement, but so long as we lack a cogent identity and cohesive style of play, we will continue to struggle - biggest/fastest athletes be damned.
Because you guys refuse to accept needing a better pool to work from, the US mens soccer will continue to fail.