Given recent difficulties, one should at least hope that humiliation is repeated.
Addtionally, they are really quite good.
Regards, Ivan
Did the American have "INS" on there jersey?
I see two things feeding USA soccer's recent improvement and carrying it into the future:
1) (Legal) immigration and sheer numbers. We're a country of almost 300 million people from everywhere, and there are bound to be good soccer players in there. I'm not even talking necessarily about immigrants themselves, but second- and third- generation Americans raised in that tradition.
Look at the Team USA roster. Based on the admittedly unscientific process of skimming surnames, it's a melting pot of a team.
Of course, that can also work against us, as a lot of players who live in America choose to invoke another citizenship because it's easier to make the team elsewhere. The best analogy I can think of is to tennis, in which pretty much all the top players from every nation hang their hats in Bradenton, Fla.
B) A growing farm system. It's a common misconception in the rest of the world that Americans don't like soccer; not so. More kids play youth soccer than baseball or softball, and an ever-growing number of those kids stick with it in high school and college.
It's just that Americans don't like to watch soccer, which I believe is because we can't get behind any contest that can end in a scoreless tie. That smells too much like communism. If no one can score in the alloted time, then they can just keep playing until someone scores or someone collapses.
This is a great US team with a superb coach. The victory against Mexico has them crying now for years!
They will never get over losing to el gringo in the World Cup, trust me.
In an ironic twist, Mexico was the better team that day much like the US was against Germany, but Germany held on for the win.
I agree one of my favourite players is McBridge who I believe played for a team in Ohio before coming to Britain.
Spelling is not my strong point today Mcbride I meant to say