This......or......
This.
Posted on 10/11/2017 3:13:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Twenty-eight years after the United States ended a four-decade World Cup absence with a stunning victory at Trinidad, the Americans' chances for the 2018 tournament in Russia ended on this island nation off the coast of Venezuela in even more astonishing fashion.
Needing only a tie and confident of victory against the world's 99th-ranked team, the U.S. was eliminated from World Cup contention Tuesday night with a 2-1 loss to Trinidad and Tobago that ended a run of seven straight American appearances at soccer's showcase.
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Frickin’ Iceland makes the World Cup and we don’t.
Because the people running US Soccer don’t have a frickin’ clue.
Yep,
Like you say,
For decades we hear how American soccer is about to take off.
This is an embarassment.
Trinadad?
True, but they barely lost out to France and Sweden......We couldn't even beat out Panama and Honduras.
I’ve had the same gripe; there is a real aversion to reality when people want to see US soccer do well. Any suggestion that they’re not great is viewed as being anti-soccer, but I love international soccer - I just wish we were better at it.
We can be, but it takes coordination from the top on down.
I think there were some in US Soccer that frankly didn’t want Klinsmann to succeed and they undercut him.
Klinsmann’s mistake was trying to keep too many older players and not going with youth, who would have been more hungry and more willing to listen to him. Yes it might have resulted in a short-term hit, but we’d be a lot better off right now, had we gone with that approach.
Sweet, so does this mean we won’t be treated to the quadrennial “soccer taking off in the United States!” media narrative?
Yes, so you can go back to your anti-American NFL.
This......or......Sunil Gulati who heads the US Soccer Federation needs to be fired. He has failed to remove nepotism and cronyism. Also youth soccer players who have parents with big money are given priority over inferior soccer players in Olympic Development Programs for youth US Soccer. Not good. Moreover, in the US, soccer is a sport where it’s near impossible for youth to even kind of/sort of develop properly unless your parents have money for expensive soccer trainers, travel, camps, and endless fees. It’s expensive to be on a Division 1 youth soccer team. And then there is the idiotic idea that our best players need to play in the MLS, rather than develop in 1st or 2nd division European leagues. Dumbest thing ever. Finally, Bruce Arena sucks... he needs to be shitcanned. We can do sooo much better. He’s worse than Klinnsmann. These are the bulk of the problems in US Soccer. Of course there are many more. Speaking as a former UNC Chappell Hill Men’s soccer player.
Yes, he seemed to favor some of those with ties to Germany, but some were younger players; I wanted him to succeed because I remembered him from years ago.
I was happy to see no players taking a knee on the US soccer team, but what is with those rainbow flags the cameras constantly focus on?
We essentially need to make the MLS a farm system for big Euro clubs.
They need to nix that rainbow flag crap, that didn’t help.
Parents driving hours spending $1,000s to get their kid’s on mediocre travel teams coached by third-rate British expats vs. Iceland’s approach: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/9a4vxp/life-as-struggle-how-iceland-became-the-worlds-best-pound-for-pound-soccer-team
To play the cheapest game in the world to play. Homeless Brazilian kids get all the skills they need from playing on the streets.
Soccer?
Well after the NFL....why not. Go for it (I’ll be watching....the baseball playoffs though)
At least we did finally win the World Baseball Classic.
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