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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't buy the best athletes and coaches play other sports. I think that's an extremely dumb statement. There are PLENTY of world class athletes in the US that play soccer.  Just look at the size of the US compared to 90% of the other countries in the world. The number of kids we have playing soccer is probably more that most other countries total populations. Now why we can't find 20 kids to put together to beat all these other countries is absolutely bonkers to me. I just don't know. We should be able to find 20 kids in the DMV to beat any country in the Caribbean for Pete's sake. On a side note...I'm not sure big TV networks like soccer because there are no commercials so I don't think it's as lucrative as all the other sports that have time outs and big breaks every few minutes. This will keep the big money out of soccer in the US.[/quote]
No, the big TV networks don't like soccer because so few people watch it here. There is plenty of TV money in Europe even without commercial breaks.

There are NOT plenty of world class athletes in the US that play soccer. Just because they are professional soccer players does not make them world class athletes. A small few US players who play in Europe could maybe be considered world class. Not the rest of them. NFL and NBA have our world class athletes. Freakishly athletic outliers that are beyond anything we have in US soccer, not just in their physical talents, but also freakish in their obsessive work habits. Also, the outlier obsessive coaches like Bill Belichick and Nick Saban and Pat Riley and Coach K are in football and basketball not soccer. It all trickles down and is cultural. Typical American thinks we should be better than everyone else at everything. 
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