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re: The real problem with the USMNT
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:43 pm to I Bleed Garnet
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:43 pm to I Bleed Garnet
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If Rob Gronkowski played soccer instead of football he wouldn’t be 270 lbs of muscle
He’d be built like this
Gronk actually looks very Crouch-ian now. Maybe we call him up for the next January Camp.
This post was edited on 7/9/19 at 2:44 pm
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Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:47 pm to RemouladeSawce
Overall, good post, but this part is painfully wrong:
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Lebron is an incredible overall athletic specimen who would destroy anyone in a decathlon
Posted on 7/9/19 at 3:41 pm to Broski
Lets do it
Posted on 7/9/19 at 7:41 pm to michael corleone
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Until the best male athletes in the US start to choose soccer over the big three (especially football) you will never see a USMNT move bound the quarterfinals.
But you don't need the best athletes (Diego Maradona isn't exactly a physical specimen) or a huge talent pool (Look at what small countries like Uruguay, Croatia, and Iceland have done) to produce good soccer players. There are enough kids who play soccer in this country. We just don't know how to develop them like the rest of the world.
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There is a reason why the women dominate
That's because the US is the only country that even remotely cares about women's soccer.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 7:47 pm to 4th and 1
Our development methods still focus waaaay too much on physical attributes. Our youth players are so far behind in the real skill of soccer, technical abilities. Pay to play and win at all cost at the youth levels both need to go die in a fire.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:03 pm to 4th and 1
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That's because the US is the only country that even remotely cares about women's soccer.
In this Women's World Cup, it was interesting to see how quickly some European countries which just started caring at all in the past decade are already producing players with some tidy technical skills and good tactical awareness.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:07 pm to wm72
Spain WNT will become a serious superpower. They are going to win in 2027. Their youth NT squads should bear serious fruit.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:14 pm to East Nasty Swaaaaag
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Spain WNT will become a serious superpower. They are going to win in 2027. Their youth NT squads should bear serious fruit.
I wouldn't be surprised.
It was funny to see the Italian women's team. . . very tactically astute, entirely frustrating and striking on a few well-designed counters.
They seemed to miss quality finishers but amusing how much they mirrored the bottom of the table Italian Serie A sides.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:20 pm to wm72
But I would be remiss to credit that an attacking presence is way more prominent in the women’s game than the men’s. Netherlands and France didn’t even really have much of a threat, but England and Spain seemed to be way more formidable in the attack.
Posted on 7/9/19 at 10:59 pm to East Nasty Swaaaaag
We need a soccer board former players vs never played but great athletes match.
You guys (the never played) can have LeBron.
You guys (the never played) can have LeBron.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 8:03 am to keeper007
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We need a soccer board former players vs never played but great athletes match.
My wife played all through college. I’ve never played a competitive match. Not even when I was 5. But I’m a really athletic guy. In college, we’d go out to the rec fields and kick around. I developed a good shot and some other aspects of the game came naturally (without pressure applied). But my gosh, any time she defended me, I couldn’t get by. Athleticism does nothing for your ball control. And I was terrible in any kind of pickup game.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 8:04 am to eric4UA08
You sound like a cuck. GTFOH.
Posted on 7/10/19 at 3:16 pm to eric4UA08
Athleticism matters but it’s secondary. The closest analogy is a baseball player. Michael Jordan amazing athlete shite baseball player.
Same thing happens in soccer.
It would be nice for US soccer to have first crack to develop athletes to filter out who can play and who can’t, but the technical aspect is far behind the top soccer countries in the world.
Same thing happens in soccer.
It would be nice for US soccer to have first crack to develop athletes to filter out who can play and who can’t, but the technical aspect is far behind the top soccer countries in the world.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 9:29 pm to cwil177
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I would love to hear some of your stories from coaching that national team
We actually had some quality players with collegiate experience. We were nowhere near fit for any major qualifying but beat up on the smaller, unorganized CONCACAF teams because our girls had a decent understanding of the game and technical ability.
We would have very little time to train before the early stages of qualifying so as time went on and we grew with stronger players we identified we actually played quite a bit of small sided to develop a rhythm with each other.
Highlight is playing Mexico in Cancun at Estadio Beto Avila. Their crowd gave me chills singing the national anthem.
We went into halftime down 3-2. Lost 7-2. Crowd loved us because we tried to play properly. Amazing.
Posted on 8/20/19 at 11:11 pm to michael corleone
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michael corleone
frick you, Fredo.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 8:07 am to keeper007
Dude that’s awesome. I’m doing sports medicine fellowship now and one of my patients is a collegiate player who plays for the Virgin Islands. Most of their players are college or high school/amateur level players. This girl told me they would get their butts kicked by any decent DII OR DIII team. I can’t imagine trying to organize that.
Posted on 8/30/19 at 9:56 pm to cwil177
The technical director, head coach and I were coaching club at the same time in Florida so every tournament we went to we would collect the rosters they hand out to college coaches to check for last names that could be Guyanese. Found some solid players.
A mom calls the TD and says her daughter played college soccer and was a GK. As a GK coach i'm quite excited to find a player with college experience. Give her some to-dos over the phone.
She shows up at our first friendly tournament in Turks and next thing you know we find out she played intramurals in college. Safe to say she wasn't the player we thought she was.
A mom calls the TD and says her daughter played college soccer and was a GK. As a GK coach i'm quite excited to find a player with college experience. Give her some to-dos over the phone.
She shows up at our first friendly tournament in Turks and next thing you know we find out she played intramurals in college. Safe to say she wasn't the player we thought she was.
Posted on 8/31/19 at 1:49 am to keeper007
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She shows up at our first friendly tournament in Turks and next thing you know we find out she played intramurals in college. Safe to say she wasn't the player we thought she was.
Haha this is hilarious, but I feel like someone should have stalked that college’s soccer rosters some more
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