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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you think the US team was faster than Senegal? Really. Also, did you see the French play on the other channel?  The US boys can’t hold a candle to the French athletically. And yes, Senegal, France, and Chilie were all better at soccer too. Face it.  Our best male atheletes DON’T PLAY SOCCER and our culture and parents and many youth coaches at many levels don’t know the game. They didn’t play it and they don’t watch it. We have no chance. Period. Ever. Not Athletically nor technically nor tactically. [/quote]

Depends on which athletes you mean.

Our best African American male athletes?  Yeah, OK, most don't play soccer.

Our best Asian athletes?  I have no stats on this but I'd guess at least half - if not more - do play soccer.

Our best Caucasian athletes?  Probably depends on the region.  In our area, I would argue that most of the best (not biggest) athletes do play soccer.   It is by far the highest participation sport for young kids in the DMV suburbs, and most of the ones who are really good at it do tend to stick with it.  In other areas of the country, football and basketball still rule.

Our best Latino athletes absolutely do play soccer, though.  And the Latino population in the US is 60 million.  That's the main reason why the "our best athletes don't play soccer" argument falls flat for me as an explanation of why the US continues to do so poorly on the world stage.  Our Latino population alone outnumbers the entire population of countries like Spain and Argentina, or Chile, let alone tiny countries like Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Uruguay ...   We have plenty of good athletes playing soccer, we just don't have enough of them who are good at it.

What we do have - is plenty of bad coaches getting advanced licences to grow their egos after attending courses taught by other bad coaches with even bigger egos.

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I'm a professional trainer and I will say that 80% of the best athletes are African American. And they do not play soccer. They play basketball and football.[/quote]

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