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

Who Wins The 2024 Copa América?


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Bigwhite2498

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Y'all not sick and tired of the nonsense for 20 pages now? We have more than enough players in this country for every sport. The team is regressing bad and it's clear that it lies with Berhalter and the administration that won't let him go.

He’s bad but the players definitely don’t have that same grit as the older guys it’s probably 50/50
 

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Cats acting like shyt is hyper expensive here when it's $200 to train your kids years 1-7 with the LA Galaxy camps for 8 classes over the entire summer.

$200 to join a competitive leagues for the Fall and Spring.

Folks acting like it's a crazy ass paywall that'll cost multi-millions of dollars :pachaha:

This is out in LA and Orange County so you know there are cheaper around the country.

That's $400/year to get a good soccer education, training and participation. That's less than $3k total years 1-7, putting your name with the program year-after-year. That's nearly as much as you'll spend on Netflix over the same period of time, so what's the excuse?

You want your kids to be a soccer star you drag them into these camps for the price of some of these streaming services. You don't need some country-wide scaled up marketing or culture shift :deadrose:

If your kids are special, then someone'll notice from there. Messi, Ronaldinho, etc. were special at 8 years old. So if someone's kid sticks out at that point, someone will sponsor them like they do everywhere else.

It's literally a lower to middle class suburbia sport, not some super high class 1% paywall on some :hhh:

So you decide: Netflix, Spotify and Disney Plus or Professional Soccer training. The choice and power is yours, nobody else's.

The defeatism here is crazy :snoop:
First it was we need to develop better now it’s send them to this summer camp for 8 sessions like what? you being purposely obtuse now bruh
 

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First it was we need to develop better now it’s send them to this summer camp for 8 sessions like what? you being purposely obtuse now bruh
Last thing I'll say is there's just too many excuses for me (and some denial). That's what I'm getting at.

It's not 1% or elite-wealth expensive or out of line for people to develop soccer players in the United States. It happens every day. Every single day.

It's mainly on the parents to put them through soccer programs, not on macro conditions: city, government, advertisers, etc.

Look at the LA Galaxy link I shared, many sold out camps.

The options are there for anybody to truly want to go down this road.

Nobody else will fix the problems, because it's nobody else's problem.
Nobody cares if you're not going to take the time and money to send your kids to quality soccer camps - because it's not their responsibility.
Some people will spend a lot of money and their kids will be mid.
Some people will spend a little money and their kids will be special.
That's just life.

At the end of the day, people aren't going to die if U.S Soccer never climbs to Brazil-level so it ain't like the government going to do anything about this. That's because soccer means absolutely nothing to the mass majority of people living day-to-day in America. How many American citizens' lives are affected by soccer today to the point this should be an important issue?
That's all I'll say and leave it at that. See ya'll again in four years :mjlol: :heh:
 
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Cats acting like shyt is hyper expensive here when it's $200 to train your kids years 1-7 with the LA Galaxy camps for 8 classes over the entire summer.

$200 to join a competitive leagues for the Fall and Spring.

Folks acting like it's a crazy ass paywall that'll cost multi-millions of dollars :pachaha:

This is out in LA and Orange County so you know there are cheaper around the country.

That's $400/year to get a good soccer education, training and participation. That's less than $3k total years 1-7, putting your name with the program year-after-year. That's nearly as much as you'll spend on Netflix over the same period of time, so what's the excuse?

You want your kids to be a soccer star you drag them into these camps for the price of some of these streaming services. You don't need some country-wide scaled up marketing or culture shift :deadrose:

If your kids are special, then someone'll notice from there. Messi, Ronaldinho, etc. were special at 8 years old. So if someone's kid sticks out at that point, someone will sponsor them like they do everywhere else.

It's literally a lower to middle class suburbia sport, not some super high class 1% paywall on some :hhh:

So you decide: Netflix, Spotify and Disney Plus or Professional Soccer training. The choice and power is yours, nobody else's.

The defeatism here is crazy :snoop:


Breh those are rec leagues ran by MLS teams....LAFC does the same thing.....the club/academy teams that they run u gotta be invited to join and it cost more bread
 

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

No wonder America sucks at soccer with this attitude.
Yet you live in England a country that adores soccer and has only one World Cup to show for it. Which just happened to be the only WC hosted in England :skip:


Bottom line is Americans don't got the dawgs and top .0001% athletes to compete and the culture isn't ingrained in the national pysche for us to be elite. It is what it is


I can't imagine some of these 5'10-6ft cornerbacks or running backs from Florida or Louisana or Texas with a soccer ball at their foot when they were 6 7 years old instead of in pads and a football helmet I think things would be very much different.
 
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