Reply to Jamaica vs USMNT in DC last night...

Forum Index » Soccer

Reply to "Jamaica vs USMNT in DC last night..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quote of the article “The “small sport” myth keeps American soccer mired in mediocrity”

That’s one hell of a myth to be able to keep the country mired in mediocrity.  Maybe the simpler explanation is correct, that most play soccer to be active and not as a primary sport.  We don’t have 24 million good soccer players in this country, or even 3 million.  we may have those numbers recreationally, but these are not die hards, sorry.  When World Cup parties come anywhere near the level of super bowl parties, then we can talk.  [/quote]

The US has enough people playing soccer to support a strong club system, certainly more than Uruguay (total population 3.4 million) and Croatia (total population 4.25 million). Total MLS TV revenues in the US ($90 million a year) is only a fraction of the $167 million a year for the Premier League (in the US only, BTW). There's room for soccer in the US to be a lot stronger and still be a relatively "minor" sport. Seems like the real problem is people are shrugging at the mediocre product US Soccer is selling them.

[/quote]

Yes.  I have been hearing this argument since I was a kid in the 70s...and back then it was certainly plausible.  You couldn't get foreign matches on TV and kids and adults certainly weren't walking around in FIFA jerseys like I see EVERYWHERE these days, even rappers wear them.

I have heard the same lame argument about the men 'we started later than all the other countries' which, ironically, the it's the exact opposite for the us women 'they started much earlier than all the other countries'.

Nobody watches MLS because its not good soccer and it's not exciting.  Period.  We have a shitty youth soccer development and lots of politics (on full display by Berthalter's choices). Period.  We lock too many kids out of the sport because of the amount of travel and the exorbitant cost to play. Period.  We focus to much on little kid wins and do the kids a disservice by cutting young and not developing.  Period.  Kids get burned out and leave the sport. Period.[/quote]

LOL, can't see the forest for the trees.

The country is changing, but the US is nothing like European and South American countries when it comes to how we regard soccer.   Period.[/quote]

Please. Just. Stop. Your nonsensical snark is only making you look like a fool.

We have more immigrants from Europe and South America here right now than Uruguay has people. If you don't believe they are just as passionate about soccer now as they were at home, you live in a bubble.

That alone could be enough, but there's more where they came from...
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics