US Olympic Soccer mens
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Anonymous
| The US is just not on the level of France. We are so far behind the European powers. |
Anonymous
| Because of our "pay to play" model, we don't develop all talent from a young age, and clubs intinue to bilk as many parents as possible |
Anonymous
| Pay to play is a symptom not the cause. Ask yourself why do we have a pay to play model in this country? What do we have (or not have) here that makes pay to play appealing or necessary? |
Anonymous
| capitalism |
Anonymous
Who pays for the free soccer for your child then? |
Anonymous
If capitalism were the cause then we would expect to see this problem in all sports, not just soccer. Isn't there capitalism in basketball and baseball? |
Anonymous
Did you bother to watch the game, or just look at the score? The US played France evenly for the first hour or so, and just missed to great chances to tie it up after going down 1-0. Yeah, it was sloppy to give up the last two goals, but I thought the US looked surprisingly good in general. |
Anonymous
Welcome to Peak Stupidity. Nobody using "capitalism" in this manner has any iota of understanding about what it is, for better or worse. |
Anonymous
| Daddy buys me a spot with the pro team, daddy buys me a spot in 4P College team, daddy buys me a spot on soccerwire, daddy sends me to private training, daddy… oh it’s not capitalism it is just daddy |
Anonymous
That happens in every country..America not the only country with rich or well off families that are able to send or have influence to get their kid the best training, or to the pro teams or even the national team. So blaming “daddy” isn’t a great excuse The biggest problem for me is we don’t have enough pro teams with youth academy’s for the size of our country. If you look at another countries almost all pro teams from the top division down have youth systems. In America we don’t have that so we miss a lot of kids that should be getting trained at pro level early on. Also, the college system is terrible because in college they are only allowed to practice together as a team I think for like 4 months in their peak years of 18-23ish where in most countries kids that age are already training at the top team or training everyday trying to make the top team |
Anonymous
It may have looked close but it was not. Yeah they did not convert but France did three times. |
Anonymous
This is just another symptom. Why don’t we have enough pro teams? |
Anonymous
Let me know why you think we don’t |
Anonymous
Your kid must suck. |
Anonymous
How many more do we need? MLS, USL, and UPSL have youth academy teams. The problem isn't a lack of academy teams. one issue with youth soccer and youth sports in general is that recruiting usually only happens at the bigger clubs. Bigger equals better in America. That's not the case internationally. |