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re: US Soccer is going backwards
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:20 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:20 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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AAU has destroyed basketball.
You’re wildly missing the point.
You still feed into a college system that then gives you the best professional basketball players in the world. And you don’t have to grow up in a rich family to make that happen. Eric Bledsoe was living out of his car two years before he ended up at Kentucky.
You can’t be selective about where the talent comes from when you’re competing with the world in a sport that isn’t your #1 men’s sport.
This post was edited on 7/6/26 at 9:21 pm
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Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:20 pm to Big4SALTbro
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That damn crash fricked us. Davies was a beast in the early fifa games because he was so fast.
Charlie’s goal at Azteca in the 2009 hex is my favorite goal of all time. Well, minus Landon against Algeria.
This post was edited on 7/6/26 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:22 pm to Alt26
quote:And...the Ghey Mafia
So US soccer fandom will remain the domain of the nerds in the student section who get to the football/basketball games 3 hours early to sit on the front row and the dweebs who don’t actually like sports but are “fans” because they don’t want to conform with mainstream society.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:22 pm to The Boat
We played Belgium better in 2014. pretty sad
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:23 pm to tigerfan88
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I tbink the Balogun controversy ended up hurting us a lot. Team looked rattled and that can’t have helped
I think they got too big for their heads a little bit. The way Belgium scored was way too easy. The first goal everyone was just too relaxed and ball watching. Then we get the goal back and thought we were too good again and conceded.
I don't think this was about Balogun. I don't know why that would make the defenders have a poor game. Dest just let that ball drop on the first goal and the second came from him trying to defend Trossard.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:24 pm to dgnx6
Balogun was our best player and looked the most focused of anyone to me.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:26 pm to Big4SALTbro
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The US Soccer federation should be saturating the inner city with small pitches and soccer balls.
Go to every housing project, give away some tee shirts, line all the kids up and have a foot race. Then take the 5 kids who finish first and see how hard they can kick a kickball. Proceed from there.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:30 pm to The Boat
It’s the fourth most popular pro sport in the nation.
It’s popular around the world because the poorest of the poor can play it.
I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this run- but it’s likely a long way off from being a sport that puts top tier American athletes on the field.
I’m not sure about anyone else- but I didn’t expect them to win that game.
It’s popular around the world because the poorest of the poor can play it.
I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this run- but it’s likely a long way off from being a sport that puts top tier American athletes on the field.
I’m not sure about anyone else- but I didn’t expect them to win that game.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:33 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
The USSF should pair that with crating boarding school academies that are basically the soccer version of those speciality sport schools for football and basketball and like Europe has for soccer.
You take the poorest kids that show promise and then you put them in an academy where they get a better education than they would in public school and you focus them on soccer.
You take the poorest kids that show promise and then you put them in an academy where they get a better education than they would in public school and you focus them on soccer.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:38 pm to BluegrassBelle
Go down to Belle Glade,l Florida where the kids chase rabbits in and out of sugar cane fields....and catch them. Those kids learn how to become quick
We are not as quick as the Europeans....or the Brazilians. Soccer need not be just fior the upper middle class kids
We are not as quick as the Europeans....or the Brazilians. Soccer need not be just fior the upper middle class kids
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:41 pm to KiwiHead
When I worked middle school, I worked at a school with a large ESL population. A good chunk of those kids went on to play collegiate soccer with a handful beyond that. And they were all immigrants and either lower middle or lower class.
I will never understand why we haven’t maximized that.
I will never understand why we haven’t maximized that.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:45 pm to KiwiHead
It’s for the poorest kids everywhere else and then the best of those is identified and sent to an academy either in country or they are gobbled up by an EPL teams academy.
It’s the reasonable way forward here, you build soccer fields or at least mini ones, or get some soccer goals and balls and use baseball courts already built and you get the poorest playing for fun and naturally. Then you recruit them to the special boarding school academies with the offer that at the very least they are getting a top level education for free but at best they have generational wealth from a euro league contract.
We can keep the current pay for play system to go along with the new academies and pull in the best of the middle and upper class kids. So really just a smart addition to build our national team
It’s the reasonable way forward here, you build soccer fields or at least mini ones, or get some soccer goals and balls and use baseball courts already built and you get the poorest playing for fun and naturally. Then you recruit them to the special boarding school academies with the offer that at the very least they are getting a top level education for free but at best they have generational wealth from a euro league contract.
We can keep the current pay for play system to go along with the new academies and pull in the best of the middle and upper class kids. So really just a smart addition to build our national team
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:46 pm to Big4SALTbro
The coach HAS to be fired after that embarrassing performance
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:50 pm to BluegrassBelle
It makes no sense that we aren’t tapping into that. It’s is the blue print for how so many other countries are so good at soccer.
The academy system would be a good recruiting school to get young kids out of violent neighborhoods and piss poor schools. shite you could even house their parents close by for cheap.
You add that to our current pay for play and we now have a full pool of kids. When a kid sees they can make more and not end up like Antonio Brown, soccer becomes a viable route.
The academy system would be a good recruiting school to get young kids out of violent neighborhoods and piss poor schools. shite you could even house their parents close by for cheap.
You add that to our current pay for play and we now have a full pool of kids. When a kid sees they can make more and not end up like Antonio Brown, soccer becomes a viable route.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:52 pm to Big4SALTbro
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Pusilic lent next to nothing to our effort and he was supposed to be our star. Pulled after 60', just damn ....
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:53 pm to Hondo Blacksheep
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Pusilic lent next to nothing to our effort and he was supposed to be our star. Pulled after 60', just damn ....
I mean he was hurt, but yeah, he's always hurt.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:55 pm to The Pirate King
He was shitting the bed before he got “hurt”. It doesn’t help he is made of glass.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:55 pm to The Boat
Tonight was a disaster. We were dominated in all aspects of the game.
It really surprised me. I could have envisioned the back end mistakes and goals. But I really didn’t see us getting dominated in the midfield the way that we were.
It really surprised me. I could have envisioned the back end mistakes and goals. But I really didn’t see us getting dominated in the midfield the way that we were.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:57 pm to The Pirate King
Yeah, he was apparently hurt throughout but soldiering on, but in the end he just didn't give us what the premier teams' stars gave them on the field. Totally support the dude but he just didn't have it working this time around.
Posted on 7/6/26 at 9:58 pm to Big4SALTbro
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When a kid sees they can make more
Does a mid tier MLS guy make more than the mid tier NFL?
I think not.
How many of our guys make it to the premier league? I’m guessing overall low given that we can’t fully fill out a starting 11 with euro club talent.
And even if it were a high amount how are you going to sell-hey I know you idolize LeBron and Justin Jefferson but you can go to England and if you get on the level of Ronaldo and Messi you can make more but have to love on the opposite side of the world from your family and they will never see you play
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