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re: Why Can't the United States Assemble a Championship Soccer Team?
Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:38 pm to mynamebowl
Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:38 pm to mynamebowl
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I don't buy the popular argument among soccer diehards that having enough good athletes isn't the problem, it is THE problem.
It's far from THE problem. It would certainly be nice, but we can do much better with what we have. Our primary priority has been, and should be, to do better with what we have.
Athleticism just isn't that big of a deal. It's great if you have it, but you have to know how to use it. If you know how to play the game well enough to use it at the highest level, then you could probably play the game at a Teddy Sheringham pace, anyway.
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Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:47 pm to joey barton
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It's far from THE problem. It would certainly be nice, but we can do much better with what we have. Our primary priority has been, and should be, to do better with what we have.
Athleticism just isn't that big of a deal. It's great if you have it, but you have to know how to use it. If you know how to play the game well enough to use it at the highest level, then you could probably play the game at a Teddy Sheringham pace, anyway.
I see where you're coming from, and I agree to a certain extent. What I am saying though is that if the best athletes we have played soccer, athleticism would be a huge deal. The major soccer-playing nations haven't seen athleticism like we have. Lack of athleticism isn't a major hindrance to the best teams/countries because they don't have the huge amounts of it that we do.
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