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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CP is our best player, and he can’t even crack the starting lineup at Chelsea or Dortmund. That is the problem. We’re just not very good. We don’t play soccer on the streets and in the playgrounds for hours and hours, day after day, and night after night like our young b-ball and football and baseball players do. Here’s a question, how many US dads teach their kids how to throw and catch a football or baseball or dribble and shoot a b-ball vs. how to kick and trap and dribble a soccer ball?  I played soccer and taught my kids how to do that and even coached their teams when young, and guess what ... one is on a girls ECNL team now. But, I played. Not a lot of dads and moms out there yet that played and know the game. It will take another generation or two for this to turn over, if ever. [/quote]

Lots of people do that. You do know we live in an area where at least 1/3 of the people are immigrants from soccer-loving countries, right?

I'm tired of the whole BS "Americans aren't good at soccer" line. Do you know who's not good at soccer?

Gregg Berhalter, with his 39% win ratio
His brother, who created a toxic working environment at US Soccer
Dan Garber and the profit-hungry owners he represents
Carlos Cordeiro, who knows so little about how to reach out to Hispanics that the Mexican NT has opened an academy in LA
and Earnie Stewart

Get rid of them and start from scratch and you'll see how good Americans can be at soccer.
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it's not just the immigrants....there is a culture like the Pulisics and the Hamms and the Kerrs and the Ellis' and the female pp, i.e., not just immigrants,  that lived and breathed soccer in the 70s/80s and have translated it to their children.  [/quote]

Who are the Kerrs? The Duke coach? Have otherwise not heard of this family in connection with US soccer. [/quote]

Seriously?  Not a local?

Nobody contributed more to soccer in the Washington area than John Kerr Sr (Scottish, a former Wash. Diplomat, Canadian National team player; several World Cup qualifiers) .  He was one of the most influential figures in the early history of Washington DC soccer. He coached the Washington Stars who followed the Washington Diplomats once the NASL league collapsed pre-MLS.  He served as executive director of the first U.S. soccer players union.  From 1972 to 1975, he was an all-star midfielder for the New York Cosmos of the old North American Soccer League. In his final season with the Cosmos, one of his teammates was Pele.  It’s the style and teams he coached that are his legacy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-kerr-sr-soccer-player-coach-and-union-leader-dies-at-67/2011/06/22/AGv9vYjH_story.html

His son, John Kerr Jr, is the Duke coach. retired soccer midfielder who played professionally in the United States, Canada, England, France and Northern Ireland. Kerr Jr was named the 1986 Hermann Award winner as the top collegiate player of the year. He also earned sixteen caps, scoring two goals, with the U.S. national team.

My brothers played for Kerr Sr.  Both played pro, one Internationally.  They still say JK Sr is the best coach they ever played for.[/quote]

Not a local. Know a fair amount about star players from the last couple decades, but don’t know about this family other than knowing a few kids who were interested in Duke soccer.  Not sure I am an outlier on familiarity with the Kerr dynasty. [/quote]

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