How the hell can we be good at basically all other sports

Unlike other sports, there are actually more than five countries that care about soccer, breh.

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It's not even being good. We just have to be better than shite like CONCACAF and we can't do that

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We got spoiled during that 2009-10 run. We think we're a lot better than we are and haven't really adapted or changed since then.

I just don't understand how a nation that produces:

Russell Westbrook
Michael Jordan
Aaron Rodgers
Patrick Peterson
OBJ
Bryce Harper
LBJ


etc etc etc

Can't field at worst a top 20 world team. I just can't understand this.

Because athleticism isn't what makes a good soccer team.

It's technique, organization, and finesse.

We need better youth development. If MLS becomes elite, it might because it has money to buy the best players and not the best youth players developing into stars. Youth development needs to be above everything.

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How the hell can we be good at basically all other sports by okietiger
So essentially, MLS is going to have to become a stronger league, maybe even good enough to be included in Champions League someday?

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Not necessarily, but the financial and travel burden put on parents is outrageous.
We should have regional pools associated with MLS who provides a financial relief.

We need to come together under the MLS umbrella, and that takes leadership, something US soccer woefully lacks.

Think Joe Alleva, but worse.

We need US soccer and MLS to get really fricking serious and work together in youth development. All of our best players go elsewhere to get better. That’s not the problem. Pulisic and Mckennie and these other young stars will find their way to big clubs in Europe. It’s the next tier of players that need to be better developed on home soil. MLS has certainly improved other CONCACAF nations by giving opportunities to their players that previously didn’t exist. We need a partnership between US soccer and MLS to set goals for having X number of coaches per youth academy and have them obtain certain coaching credentials. Require the academies to keep a large portion of the academies as US eligible players. Set goals. Achieve the goals. Reap the rewards.

No soccer has to become a viable option for all kids. It's the whole anti-pay to play argument. Let's face it, a large portion of our best athletes in football and basketball come from poor backgrounds, and use sports to get out poverty. Making soccer pay to play you exclude those kids and severely limit the talent pool. So while some kid who could be the next world class striker is picking a sport to focus on, soccer is exclude because he doesn't have the $1000 needed to play on a club team, and can play rec basketball for $25.

Also, no European league really taking American kids serious means they aren't developing under the top coaches. Players like Pulisic, Brooks, Wood, CCV, Miazga, McKennie, Wright, and a few more hopefully change their views and open up more opportunities for American kids.

Didn’t think about that.

So there’s basically no way poor kids can play. Which is basically the majority of the list I just posted up there.