How would the US do if they took Euro sport seriously?

I’d pay to see Laron Landry play 5 minutes in a soccer game.

I for one look forward to 2 weeks from now when we can all go back to not pretending to care about soccer

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By population alone we would have a larger pool and thus a huge advantage.

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Thats not how it works though.

China and India are arse at soccer

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Plus I venture to say the US population is more athletic than theirs

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About 2%of our population is

And they all want to play football and basketball

It's taken serious, but hard to get to the level of many other places. It would have to be equal to basketball in the hood to hoops on the side of a barn. Other nations have poor players that are playing in the streets with coke cans. Other nations have players that grow up playing on the beach. Etc etc.

We are also way to spread out, so creating a "style," other than "American Grit" is difficult. They aren't playing together super young. Finding a way to get a large amount of great talent discovered really really young, and all moving to one place to play together may be the way to pull it off. But that's the level of seriousness that is needed, and time.

American Grit and talent keeps us where we are now. And for goodness sake stop with the homo shite.

Unless we start executing players when they lose, I don’t see us taking it that seriously by comparison.

Even Larusso was a hell of a soccer player but chose Karate.

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How would the US do if they took Euro sport seriously?

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Chevrolet did from ‘84 to ‘90.

Here’s an ‘86-

It’s not like these European teams aren’t lousy with African players. It’s not like there aren’t 10ish US citizens playing for other countries either.

Yes, if the elite-level kids who typically funnel into American football skill positions or basketball back court positions were placed into soccer academies at 6 years old like they do in Europe, we’d dominate TF out of international soccer.