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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s the best you’ve got?  Xenophobic??

Their results are generally worse than the US and they have much higher populations.  We’ll see how Berhalter does, he’s gotten a lot out of relatively crappy rosters in MLS and put your beloved Tata to shame at least once. [/quote]

MLS has crappy rosters because they choose to have them and don't do anything to make them better. Because MLS is all about the money, not the game. All they want is good enough, not just good. And as long as MLS is allowed to control the USSF, the USMNT will be the same way.

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In the last decade, MLS has improved more than any league in the world. 
Sure, they had a really low starting point, but the whole 'MLS sucks" rhetoric just sounds stupider and stupider every year. [/quote]

I don't know where you're getting that, but it simply isn't true. Try looking at pro leagues in Japan and China, for starters.

MLS does suck. And no matter how much it improves it will still suck, until it gets rid of its closed, cartel-like system that's designed to maximize profits at the expense of the game. It's the structure of MLS that sucks, a structure that's totally out of place in the global game and which holds American players back from having the edge they need to compete in an open world system. And MLS control over USSF casts the same dark shadow over the USMNT. It isn't about the quality of play. It's about a system that works against the goal of identifying and developing good US players and providing them with a competitive environment in which they can become dominant. What holds our players back is a closed, dead system that sucks all the competitiveness and creativity out of the game.

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Even if you look just south of the border, you realize that MLS has not improved that much.  With all the disarray and problems in Mexican soccer, Mexican clubs won every single CONCACAF champions league title, going 10 for 10.  [/quote]

You seem to be ignoring the fact that the Mexican clubs are in mid-season form for for most of the games, while MLS plays many of the games either pre-season or early on. The odds are heavily stacked against them.[/quote]

The competition's schedule is fairly similar to the UEFA champions league.  One can always find excuses for poor performances.  Preseason form is not a valid excuse for poor performance in the later, more meaningful stages of competition, which are in April-May.  [/quote]

All the major European leagues are on the same schedule...it's not similar at all to CONCACAF. 
And if the teams get eliminated in the early stages, it doesn't matter how good they are in April and May. [/quote]

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