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re: ESPN's Adrian Melville ranks top-23 US soccer players
Posted on 5/31/14 at 10:57 pm to rdw1690
Posted on 5/31/14 at 10:57 pm to rdw1690
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Being a top 100 player in the world is pretty tough though. There are a lot of very good players walking the earth right now.
Then could you say that the USA is a team that has no real star players but can field a very solid team with not much drop off from it's best player to it's 11'th player. Maybe more so than other teams in the world cup who maybe have a couple of superstars but have weaknesses at other positions?
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Posted on 5/31/14 at 11:15 pm to boxcar willie
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Then could you say that the USA is a team that has no real star players but can field a very solid team with not much drop off from it's best player to it's 11'th player.
Yes, and this is the progress we've made.
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Maybe more so than other teams in the world cup who maybe have a couple of superstars but have weaknesses at other positions?
There are some teams that fit this description. Many of the African teams, for example, have some absolute top notch superstar players but also have some pretty average players at other key positions. Bosnia is another good example.
However, there are still 5 or 6 absolutely loaded sides and another 6 to 8 who have a couple of superstars but also a complete roster stronger than ours individually.
Posted on 6/1/14 at 12:32 am to boxcar willie
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Then could you say that the USA is a team that has no real star players but can field a very solid team with not much drop off from it's best player to it's 11'th player. Maybe more so than other teams in the world cup who maybe have a couple of superstars but have weaknesses at other positions?
I think that would be a very accurate description of this team and most of the teams we field.
We also make up for our lack of technical depth and ability by generally being the fitter team on the pitch.
We'll probably get there one day. Maybe Julian Green will pan out to be that guy. It all start with our youth system though.
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