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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything comes from the culture but unfortunately culture is not something you can just change the way you want. It evolves organically. US does not have a strong soccer culture like in other parts of the world, especially on the mens side. It's not a numbers thing, it's a fabric of society thing. All the points people are making stem from having a soccer culture. More money coming in brings incentives for better quality coaching, better quality players, better systems, and so on. How do we make the US have a strong soccer culture? Good luck with that one.[/quote]

We have a strong soccer culture. 
It's just a bad soccer culture.

A lot of our soccer culture is an attempt to replicate or Frankenstein football, basketball, baseball, hockey cultures.
Can't work. Won't work. Doesn't work.

How many people in DCUM can tell stories of playing pickup and unofficial community soccer almost every day of their young lives with friends?

How many people with kids playing soccer in the DMV can name the DC United starting lineup? 
Can the kids in the DMV playing soccer name the DCU starting lineup?

No.

Because we don't have the right soccer culture to be top tier.[/quote]
Not only is there a bad soccer culture here. I would say it's almost strongly anti-soccer. To the vast majority of people in this country, who have grown up here watching football, soccer is kind of a joke of a sport. They criticize the lack of scoring, think it's a simple game. Just run around and kick it. Watch a game with one of them and they will point out all the rules which should be changed to make the sport better: get rid of offside rule, foul out after committing 5 fouls, stop the clock when the ball goes out of bounds, more scoring, etc. Of course, this is silly and they just don't understand the game. But it is the prevailing opinion as evidenced by listening to parents on the sidelines and their kids actually play the sport. It's the same reaction I get when watching NFL with someone from Europe. They don't understand the silly rules or the game and like when teams kick field goals. All of this is to say it's ok. The world would be a boring place if every country had the same culture and liked all the same things. The US is big enough that we can still have an active soccer community for those that enjoy it, and we should accept and lean into what makes the US soccer culture unique and not try to be something we're not.[/quote]

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