If The U.S. Focused On Soccer, It Would Be A Wrap

[unit321]

This country puts out it's C-level athletes and is somewhat competitive. If this country focused on poverty ball and actually had it's premier athletes playing, every world trophy would be held in this great nation.
If Chilie and Belgium can move up 60+ spots in Fifa's world rankings in a 5-15 year time period while using their best athletes, the U.S. would be #1 in no time if this country even put it's B-level athletes out there.
A cross from Westbrook into the box finished with a header by LeBron..

American premier athlete's compete in sports where it makes sense. Football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, golf, tennis, swimming, track and field, and boxing.
The problem with American soccer is that there aren't good coaches at the lower-levels. Keeping it a hundred, American kids can blow out youth basketball teams from any other country. Dream team on the biddy basketball level. On the flipside, European and Latin American kids can blow out youth American soccer teams.

If you look at most American baseball programs, you have parents coaching youth baseball and t-ball teams. They played baseball as a kid and can teach it to children. They understand how to throw, catch, and hit the ball. They know the rules of the game. When you have parents coaching youth soccer, it's a catastrophe. Practices are a clown show. No one has played the game, knows all the rules of the game, knows how to kick, trap, or pass the ball, or throw in a ball, do a penalty kick, set up offensive and defensive schemes. It just becomes a political fight to see which kids get more field time during games. Only some youth programs are getting better, but all the really good American players go to Europe. MLS is not seen a first tier league in the world. There's money to be made in the MLS but you haven't "made" it when you get on a team. That's like going to Japan to play professional baseball. You haven't really made it unless you play in MLB.

 

[Mr_X]

Being big, strong and pumped full of steroids means shyt in soccer

Soccer is all about natural born skill, to be part of the elite you gotta be born with the gift. Either you have it or you don't.

A quick look at the soccer GOATs and you can see the majority aren't particularly tall or athletic. Maradona was a chubby midget and he's top 2 all time

A malnourished kid from the favela would eat an american athletic freak alive on the pitch.

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

US does have a youth academy. They go to Florida and attend IMG while practicing 2 times a day 6 days a week. They ain't picking the right players.

I just don't think the focus on youth soccer is equivalent to other countries was my point

 

[all3rd]

Stop christ Iceland is better at soccer than the United States.

 

[TrapHouse Rock]

Yeah, the US is slow as shyt too many white dudes, we'd be better if better athletes played but still wouldn't produce a world class striker without the proper pipeline in place.

I mean look at this shyt -



The US has never had anyone with a world class first touch, and probably never will as long as we still use the current structure.

 

[Paradise50]

Germany has one black guy, 2 turkish dudes, the rest of the team is white. They had the most goals at 2014 by a huge margin. I don't think that most of the German national team grew up poor either. They are just surgical, diciplined team

fair but a lot of good players do come from poor backgrounds....you can't deny it. Also soccer is just that embraced in so many countries....as big as football is in America it doesn't sniff how it is in a lot of european, south american, and african countries ....also the academies that are in these countries help train the players to elite levels.....literally every club in major european leagues have youth academies. They be poaching young africans like they're blood diamonds. The ugly side is that they never talk about the rejects who don't reach the fame. Read an article on that awhile back and many failures turn to drugs/crime to keep up somewhat of a lifestyle

kinda off topic but:

To keep it real american football isn't even obsessed at all levels across America except in the south.

yall midwest/west coast nikkas fall byke...I want no issues literally from youth to pro football is insane in the south....from texas to bumbafukk mississippi to florida and up through the carolinas ...we love that shyt

 

[Whooty Chaser]

The USA will never be major player in soccer. The most they could hope for is quarter finals in the World Cup. We have alot of heart and a great work ethic, but we just don't have the talent to compete with the top countries.

 

[Paradise50]

American premier athlete's compete in sports where it makes sense. Football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, golf, tennis, swimming, track and field, and boxing.
The problem with American soccer is that there aren't good coaches at the lower-levels. Keeping it a hundred, American kids can blow out youth basketball teams from any other country. Dream team on the biddy basketball level. On the flipside, European and Latin American kids can blow out youth American soccer teams.

If you look at most American baseball programs, you have parents coaching youth baseball and t-ball teams. They played baseball as a kid and can teach it to children. They understand how to throw, catch, and hit the ball. They know the rules of the game. When you have parents coaching youth soccer, it's a catastrophe. Practices are a clown show. No one has played the game, knows all the rules of the game, knows how to kick, trap, or pass the ball, or throw in a ball, do a penalty kick, set up offensive and defensive schemes. It just becomes a political fight to see which kids get more field time during games. Only some youth programs are getting better, but all the really good American players go to Europe. MLS is not seen a first tier league in the world. There's money to be made in the MLS but you haven't "made" it when you get on a team. That's like going to Japan to play professional baseball. You haven't really made it unless you play in MLB.

MLS isn't even better than Liga Mx

 

[mr heyzel]

we can be a force in the world if it's a outreach program to kids and parents from the inner cities, soccer is a relativity cheap sport to get kids involve with next too basketball we just need people to teach the parents that it's money to be made in soccer it 6 different major leagues that need talent so the opportunities are there

 

[unit321]

MLS isn't even better than Liga Mx

MLS is not the bee's knees.
David Beckham came over for the money. That's it. He cashed in. MLS didn't really improve with his presence. In my opinion, he wasn't the Michael Jordan of soccer. MLS thought they had the world's greatest player. Of course, Beckham is known worldwide and the assumption was that MLS was going to grow in popularity with his presence. But he joined a trash league. The league has gotten better in some aspects, but anyone with legit talent in the world is going to want to play in Europe.

 

[boskey]

It's funny because everybody in the world thinks American Football is a game of pussies dressed by their overprotective moms.

FOH. The Denver Broncos roster could probably invade and occupy most European cities without any weapons. Nobody is looking them in the eye let alone calling them p*ssy...

 

[Goat poster]

The USA will never be major player in soccer. The most they could hope for is quarter finals in the World Cup. We have alot of heart and a great work ethic, but we just don't have the talent to compete with the top countries.

I don't think it's as much about lack of talent then lack of structure.

20 years ago someone could have said Spain lacks talent in basketball, but once they invested in their national team, and their league, and most importantly their youth they now have the second best team and league in the world.

The talent would be there if developed properly.

 

[010101]

nikkas look goofy trying to make a virtue out of being short and frail jajajahahahaa

it's all about training and skill development

add the same level of development to faster stronger bigger more coordinated just all around better athletes and you're telling me they'd make worse footballers¿ jajajahahahaa

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[TKOK]

maybe if the top athletes started playing soccer at a young age like these top soccer players do.

 

[I'm Chillin]

Cuz messi is an athletic freak

you need actual skills from childhood and years of playing. Real futbol you gotta be quick with your feet and mind. Thats why cerebral players like nash and kobe also plays soccer.

Literally just described every sport. But for whatever reason whenever this thread pops up only people in other countries that play soccer have these skills.