He's signed through 2018.Hopefully US Soccer doesn't do something stupid like fire J?rgen Klinsmann or not re-sign him. The guy has this team on the right path.
It will need to start a the youth level. If you polled the USMNT, probably 75%+ played AYSO soccer for many years when they were young (where often times the coaches are whichever father or mother volunteers for the job). Most high school teams aren't much better. I'm sure many moved on to a youth club team, but the system for identifying and training talent is not comparable to what the rest of the world.The U.S. doing better in the World Cup than soccer powerhouse nations (England, Italy, etc) should be enough proof that we could probably dominate if our culture had gone that way a century ago.
Is there some other country where soccer is the 4th or 5th most popular sport yet they make it further than the US does?Every 4 years this argument is made after USA loses, it's hilarious. And no, it's never ever going to be true.
NFL is pretty fucking strategic. Sure, it doesn't take a long time to develop a play, but there is a shitload going on in every play. It's not just random chaos with dudes running into each other.As someone mentioned earlier it starts with the youth. Hopefully more kids get out there and play. Or more accurately, less parents act like little bitches and tell their kids to play a manly sport like baseball, hockey, football. We have some of the best athletes in the world, but almost none of them play soccer.
But truth is, I imagine myself and the other 6 Americans will go back to posting in the normal soccer thread on these boards while the rest of you will disappear. It's just our attitude as a nation towards the game, and I really have no problem with that. I try to tell my friends to give in to the "1 year challenge" of picking a team and sitting down every Saturday morning (and sometimes Wednesdays) to watch Premier for a year, and by the end of that one year you will be drinking beer at 6am (on the West Coast) and screaming at the screen in your local British pub. It has all the personalities of the WWF in the 1980s, andmore strategy than any American sport. Try it, but try it for a full year.
Yeah, the strategic aspect of it comes from a guy in a booth not from the players on the field trying to make plays happen on the fly. Not trying to start a derail but the players on the field just have to run their route/block their guy. With Soccer, basketball, hockey etc it's not like that. Sure there are set plays they practice but mainly it's up to the players to get it going.NFL is pretty fucking strategic. Sure, it doesn't take a long time to develop a play, but there is a shitload going on in every play.
You just won the certified dipshit award.Yeah, the strategic aspect of it comes from a guy in a booth not from the players on the field trying to make plays happen on the fly. Not trying to start a derail but the players on the field just have to run their route/block their guy. With Soccer, basketball, hockey etc it's not like that. Sure there are set plays they practice but mainly it's up to the players to get it going.
Well I started watching the Superbowl around 2004, so I guess I was a Pats bandwagon fan of those days, and that they are from the most 'European' part of the USA did indeed solidify my team choice. 2013-2014 was the first I really following game after game throughout the season, mostly thanks to the finally finding a good streaming site (vipbox.eu). I love the tactical aspect of the game, but it's a game you need to learn to watch - which I'm doing slowly, slowly - because so much is hidden or happens so fast.Just because they have England in their name doesn't mean you fucking Euros have to root for them ffs. Be a true bandwagon fan and root forDallasPittsburghSan FranciscoSeattle.
My signed Brady jersey is in the bathroom, with the rest of the worthless shit that I use to wipe my ass.Well I started watching the Superbowl around 2004, so I guess I was a Pats bandwagon fan of those days, and that they are from the most 'European' part of the USA did indeed solidify my team choice. 2013-2014 was the first I really following game after game throughout the season, mostly thanks to the finally finding a good streaming site (vipbox.eu). I love the tactical aspect of the game, but it's a game you need to learn to watch - which I'm doing slowly, slowly - because so much is hidden or happens so fast.
Sutekh, I had to look up those names. They're before my time. Nowifwe were talking about that signed Brady jersey we all know you have tucked under your pillow...
Got that T-shirt in the NFL store in SF. Above the register they had some QB jerseys. Me: "How much for the Brady jersey?", cashier: "$300", me: "yeah I'll stick with the t-shirt".
Bonus gif time:
And since Belgian food and drink as so popular in the US, I present what we call 'Filet Americain' (which is basically ground beef):
There's people who do care, and those of you who don't are shitting up this thread. I've never seen a soccer post in the NFL or NBA thread.I don't know why Euro's get so upset that we don't really care about their sport that much.
I'm not saying we would necessarily dominate, but it's ridiculous to say that we wouldn't be consistently in the top 10 if we actually gave a shit about soccer. I mean, name me a sport that we actually throw any bit of interest and money into where we're not competitiveall the time?
You can throw out how Lebron may not be a great soccer player, and maybe Calvin Johnson too. But if we were cultivating soccer players in college like we do the NFL/NBA/MLB and selecting the best of the bestwith a soccer skillsetyou don't think we'd have a hell of a fucking team? You're out of your damn mind.