You wrote...
"France has the same problem beating Germany in a World Cup."
"In fact France has a problem beating any Power house soccer nation except Brazil, which kind of odd because most teams in the world have problems beating Brazil."
"Brazil will always remain the best soccer nation on the planet and the record clearly shows it. There is always another time for Brazil and another opportunity to win yet another world cup, so far they have five and they will have their sixth and seventh."
Hmmm. Les Bleus have beaten Brazil three outta the last four. Germany last won in 1990. France last won in 1998. Zidane and company may or may not win another game, but they deserve more respect that you give them.
Also, you think Brazil will ALWAYS be the best soccer nation? Clearly, you do not know what's going on in the good old USA. Watch youth to high school soccer. Given the right coach (and yeah, that's a dig), we will make the semi finals the next two cups and win one of them. Even as the country's fourth sport, we will start to dominate.
Given the right coach (and yeah, that's a dig), we will make the semi finals the next two cups and win one of them. Even as the country's fourth sport, we will start to dominate.
Then I started laughing.
As I said before Brazil is the best soccer nation in the world and the record or records show it, this is not a disputable point.
In regards to the French, they just have it good against Brazil in the World Cups and that is all. France is a good soccer team and they have a good record but to compare them to Brazil record or even Germany is a joke.
Brazil is always the team to beat in any world cup, and Brazil will always be the favorite in any world cup, and Brazil will always have the largest numbers of fans world wide, and everytime Brazil does not make to the final, the world cup loses a lot of it luster. You cannot say this about any other teams except "perhaps" Germany. Even if France wins this world cup, less than 10% chance, they will not compare to Brazil in term of achievement and record, they may not even qualify for the next world cup since Zeidan will not be with them anymore, that is how fragile a team like France is, it is a fluke that they have a great player like Zeidan but this will not be a common occurrence in the French soccer.
Well - they should go for it. The US has a lot of good athletes and many people with a pioneers attitude - I think it's only a question of time that 'soccer' becomes an even more popular thing at your place - it's nothing less then the worlds most wanted trophy.
...and I think it's overdue that the chineese and indians come up with a decent football team - can't even remember them having ever qualified.
As long as all these "football" nations play pickup soccer all the time, while pickup games are rare in the US, we will not win much against Brazil, France, Germany, and the other football powerhouses.
In this country, pickup games are more basketball than anything else, and pickup games of American football and baseball are much more common than soccer.
American players don't learn by playing unsupervised against older kids, almost all of our players come up through overcoached leagues, and wind up without any creativity. I don't know how to change that - although more youngsters than ever are playing the game, they still aren't playing on their own.