Copa América 2024 [6/20-7/14] “Coming 2 America” (Final: Argentina/Colombia)

[Bigwhite2498]

Interesting. So then I'm asking why is this? 'Americans' are athletic enough for basketball, baseball, track, all other sports but soccer, no one in America is good enough. Why is that?

First they say athleticism don’t matter it’s skill and brawn now they say we aren’t athletic enough even though we dominate pretty much every sport

 

[Mister Terrific]

This is just sad. Very sad.

A black man caping for the red white and blue. Is this what the coli is now?

Yet here you are cheering on England remember how cacs treated you the last time you choked

 

[Gilver]

First they say athleticism don’t matter it’s skill and brawn now they say we aren’t athletic enough even though we dominate pretty much every sport

Every sport?

Basketball? Nope, once the skill players from Europe came being tall was no longer good enough.
Baseball? Japanese and Dominicans.
Football/NFL? No one else cares, you can have it. If we decided to, we'd dominate however.
Track and field? Jamaica.
Hockey? Foh with that gay shyt bruh.

What you lot actually got?

 

[Bigwhite2498]

Every sport?

Basketball? Nope, once the skill players from Europe came being tall was no longer good enough.
Baseball? Japanese and Dominicans.
Football/NFL? No one else cares, you can have it. If we decided to, we'd dominate however.
Track and field? Jamaica.
Hockey? Foh with that gay shyt bruh.

What you lot actually got?

We literally have the fastest woman and fastest man rn wym Jamaica the vast majority of mlb players are American and basketball isn’t about just being tall lmao and still the best players are still American there’s like 3 Europeans the rest are American wth

 

[Mister Terrific]

You are going to the 90s (Drazen Petrovic, Toni Kukoc), and they were fringe All Stars. Great players, but not all-NBA. Now, they have developed all-NBA players like Jokic and Doncic.

The US has been playing soccer since the 50s, and never had a top star. Who is the best US player ever? How close to all-world type team was he? Thats the point/comparison

Basketball is huge in the Balkans. Most of this board is older than the MLS.


Christian Pulisic made the Serie A best 11 this year. He’s the best American ever. And about the age when the U.S. started focusing on developing soccer players.



I’m not as down on US soccer development as others. Even having great players doesn’t make a great team. Look at Italy and England.

 

[charknicks]

Eh, not exactly. Even Joe Gaetjens who scored against England in 1950 was Haitian.
The US didnt' start to take the game serious right up until 1989 or so when they were pushing to qualify for Italia 90.
I suggest the documentary 'The One Billion Dollar Goal' on Paramount to get an idea of how lost the USA was in terms of the sport from 1950 - 1989

But using your point, the US was 'playing' in the 30s just like Yugoslavia in basketball. So in all that time, cant field a good team? With all the citizens of other countries repping the US like in tennis, or any other sport? The US with all its resources, cant develop 5-7 great players at a time, and then fill a roster.
Soccer should be easier then the other sports mentioned. Games are 1-0, 2-1, 3-1. You need a couple players to create a moment or 2 of brilliance each game and you are there. So we can find/develop that at all, ever?

 

[Gilver]

We literally have the fastest woman and fastest man rn wym Jamaica the vast majority of mlb players are American and basketball isn’t about just being tall lmao and still the best players are still American there’s like 3 Europeans the rest are American wth

Aite bro, well done on the whole 'running really fast in a straight line' thing.

No wonder America sucks at soccer with this attitude.

 

[Bigwhite2498]

Basketball is huge in the Balkans. Most of this board is older than the MLS.


Christian Pulisic made the Serie A best 11 this year. He’s the best American ever. And about the age when the U.S. started focusing on developing soccer players.



I’m not as down on US soccer development as others. Even having great players doesn’t make a great team. Look at Italy and England.

Dempsey is Fulham's all-time leading Premier League goal scorer and you gonna put pulisic as the greatest American player ever after one good year lmao be real

 

[charknicks]

Every sport?

Basketball? Nope, once the skill players from Europe came being tall was no longer good enough.
Baseball? Japanese and Dominicans.
Football/NFL? No one else cares, you can have it. If we decided to, we'd dominate however.
Track and field? Jamaica.
Hockey? Foh with that gay shyt bruh.

What you lot actually got?

We? lol, you aint dominating anything in England, bruv. Hell, you arent dominating soccer now yourself.

Since you want to pipe up, you have the most famous league in the world, and havent won the World Cup since 1966. You havent won a MAJOR TOURNAMENT since 1966. So, Im gonna need you to chill the fukk out. Obviously out of your depth.

So what does England actually have?

 

[Gilver]

Basketball is huge in the Balkans. Most of this board is older than the MLS.


Christian Pulisic made the Serie A best 11 this year. He’s the best American ever. And about the age when the U.S. started focusing on developing soccer players.



I’m not as down on US soccer development as others. Even having great players doesn’t make a great team. Look at Italy and England.

Bro is citing a best XI in Serie Ass as evidence oh my god.

 

[Bigwhite2498]

Aite bro, well done on the whole 'running really fast in a straight line' thing.

Now we moving the goal post

 

[Mister Terrific]

Dempsey is Fulham's all-time leading Premier League goal scorer and you gonna put pulisic as the greatest American player ever after one good year lmao be real

Pulisic styling on Real Madrid in the champions league semis is better than anything Dempsey ever did in his career fukking Fulham

 

[Nero Christ]

The same way the Dominican Republic produces a massive amount of world class baseball players from a tiny island compared to the USA.

It's a culture that's embedded into the country, the Uruguayan players know the financial possibilities of leaving for Europe so they break their backs to be the best they can, same way Juan Soto busted his ass and went to 50 tryouts before he was signed, trained everyday in broken down fields with no league in the country, but before that growing up the only sport he knew was baseball, and they know the only way off the island is to get signed.

That narrative, "why can't the US find 25 good players" has been floating around the internet for decades now, and it's not that simple to "just find" some players in the streets of L.A. The US will produce world class players when the game itself is embedded into American culture.

Americans don't want to hear this but the culture here is "money". It's why baseball in the US looks the way it does, same for basketball, and it will touch the NFL in years to come.

 

[Gilver]

We? lol, you aint dominating anything in England, bruv. Hell, you arent dominating soccer now yourself.

Since you want to pipe up, you have the most famous league in the world, and havent won the World Cup since 1966. You havent won a MAJOR TOURNAMENT since 1966. So, Im gonna need you to chill the fukk out. Obviously out of your depth.

So what does England actually have?

Harry Kane would be the greatest quarter-back of all time if he decided to play 'football'.

 

[Bigwhite2498]

We? lol, you aint dominating anything in England, bruv. Hell, you arent dominating soccer now yourself.

Since you want to pipe up, you have the most famous league in the world, and havent won the World Cup since 1966. You havent won a MAJOR TOURNAMENT since 1966. So, Im gonna need you to chill the fukk out. Obviously out of your depth.

So what does England actually have?

He is a troll lmao England has never beaten the U.S in a World Cup but he wonders why we bad maybe he should look at his squad