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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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Athleticism has never been the problem. We have traditionally fielded very athletic teams to make up for our other issues. Granted, in the last few years we have started to move away from that (with so so results) but the idea that if we just gave an NFL football player a soccer ball he would be world class is the 'go to' US bravado 'take' on why we aren't as good as we think we should be. You are literally doing with that argument what you accuse others of: "Typical American thinks we should be better than everyone else at everything".

Even the OPs take on the U15 game was that we were vastly overpowered in athleticism. [i]That's how we've always done it[/i]! And, to be fair, soccer is a game about winning and losing and if that was a pathway to winning long term maybe we stick with it (or go back to it). But that doesn't seem to be the case.

We have a ton of issues, from our geography, identity, history, politics, youth structures, leadership (or lack thereof)  etc., in play that impact what our net results are when the team trots out there. Everyone likes to spin around and single one thing or the other out but the truth of the matter is it there is no 'one' thing. We've got issues. I think we're getting better in small increments but so is everyone else. [/quote]

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