Can USA Become A World Soccer Power?
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- We explore what it takes to become a world soccer power and if the USMNT can get there.
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USA Must continue to Emphasize TECHNICAL BALL skills to ALL levels of USA Soccer Player Development.
This is what Belgium did in the early 2000's.
No big field games until later ages. Instead small number of players on a small field to improve technical ability. I say the experiment worked.
Think they begin with 2v2's or 3v3's and no goalkeeper.
Technique > Physicality
@@Londronable And yet, they're still not as good as they were in the 1980s when they made their only major final and were it not for Maradona, might have been 2.
@@BC-th3mx Yea, because other countries do the same.
Germany and Iceland have similar stories. Belgium is not unique in occasionally making a big change for big gains.
Excellent overview, exploration and analysis. Living in Europe (mainly Kraków) for nearly 15 years provides me an excellent witness slot for the USMNT global rise! Cheers! Na Zdrowie! Salud!
That's so cool. Thank you, Stanley.
i think it has always been a time thing for us soccer. the athletes and resources we have here stack up with the best around the world. it is a great time to be a fan!
nice video
i'm Ghanaian and i gotta say that being a world soccer power isn't only about having players in Europe and having young prospects mature but your players must also be playing on the regular in competitive leagues, your league must be competitive (because the players get requited from the leagues), have a super star figure in your team, and good and quality coaching exports.
Extremely well said. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇭
Time…that’s it! Never been so hyped to be a USMNT fan as right now. Thanks for being a thoughtful advocate for the beautiful game in the States, Sam.
While I’m extremely optimistic about our potential, the way we actually handle our national team is another story. If we could fix that as well, I will be well-roundedly happy about our future
W video. Very informative and I always love to learn about our football as an international American footballing youngster
Couldn't agree with you more! Thanks for the great insight.
For u to be a football super power u need to produce great players n teams over generations n have a real history in the WC
Yes. Most people are thinking US will be great in football in a short time, when, in fact, it is a broad work over the decades. The sons and grandsons will see the results and live the results, but for now, it's only work work development and work
Great writing Sam. Super clean! MLS will be undisputed concacaf kings within a decade.
👋👋👋 from Brazil. Good Video !
Love this. Absolutely right! The major world powers have had academies up and running for decades. The US is really started focusing in on this area and the fruits of that labor are playing in the Premier League, Ligue 1, Superliga, and the Bundesliga. As more and more academies learn how to educate and build youth players, we'll only catch up at a faster and faster rate. Additionally, population size and growth in the US compared to population decline in much of Europe will mean that there will be more slots open to American players.
Great stuff, Sam. I remember in 2002 the games started at 1-1:30 in the morning. Got home from work at 6:30, went to bed, woke up at 1 and watched all 3 games before work. That world cup I watched every single game played. We made a great run that time.
Hosting a world cup in 2026 with what will be our strongest squad ever will bring fandom to new heights, and that will bring in a bumper crop of talent to every academy in the nation. The timing of hosting it at that point is so perfect.
The next step in the development of US football have to be to make his team to play on a continental competition like Copa Libertadores.
There is no way to get to the next level without playing an international tournament with the best team of each country.
Europe has Champions League.
US has money, can offer a good life standard, has some of the best athletes in Olympics, which proves that athleticism is a strong quality in your country. I cannot see why US can't become a great football nation. Brazil don't have the money US has, can't offer the best life standard as US offers, and so on. We just have a strange capacity of giving birth to a lot of great players. US can do this. Hope MLS can compete against brazilian teams in the coming decade. It will be a great future for football fans.
Can USA Become A World Soccer Power?
Me: Not with the USSF only caring about profit and favors for family members.
and managers like Beerholder that keep placing MLS players in the USMNT roster kowtowing to them when there are better US players overseas
One of your best of all time!
Importantly, we are also seeing the U.S. produce much better coaches, who are now starting to get more opportunities outside of the MLS. In my view, our shallow coaching pool has been a part of the reason our "rise" has been so incredibly slow. Now that we have a solid, homegrown coaching base (and I do mean licensed coaches), I think we will see our improvement accelerate.
To be fair, the US rise has been relatively steady. No other country has been met with the absurd expectations the US has in terms of development and achievement, be it players and domestic league. It's like expecting Team Great Britain to win the Olympic gold in basketball when England, Wales, N. Ireland and Scotland don't have much of a history in the game to begin with.
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The revenue ($5.2 billion) of NHL, the last of the four major sports in the US, is greater than that of La Liga. There are 20 teams in La Liga and 32 teams in the NHL, but the NHL is an indoor sport. mls should exceed nhl as revenue. Of course it will be difficult
Revenue of Premier league is 10 billion
Sam, I agree with your thoughts. Funny, I do remember having these very same conversations with coaches, parents, on-line discussion boards back 10 or 12 years ago. Back then and even now the answer to me is simple. Though the pathway to that solutions isn't so simple.
One thing, in addition to "time" is MONEY! I don't mean throw money at the problem until it is right. "Pay to play" is throw money at it and it doesn't work. What needs to change is that we see these kids, young kids, they have to be product or a commodity that will make us money. If every youth club in the USA were able to get a percentage of a players pro contract signing, youth clubs will change how they approach cultivating talent. This has been done to an extent with US DA and MLS Next.
The second part of "money" is the media. I don't watch much MLB or NBA or NFL, but i do know about those big contracts being signed and if I were a young (10 years old) athletic kid i would be thinking about playing football or basketball or baseball, not soccer. That seems to be where the money is at. Once i hear i can make "real" money playing soccer....game changer!
These are great points. I didn't get too deep into the weeds on this but I believe it wasn't until 2019 that US academies could seek to recoup funds from transfers. That's huge but as with everything else it's baby steps. Pay to play is an issue though it's slowly being chipped away. Last I check all but 2 MLS academies operated on scholarships. Though parents still have to fork out the money before their child can be scholarship age eligible. Slowly but surely things are changing but it's going to take time.
i swear the NFL is so big is because half the time it is adds i saw a video on it lol
Good Friday night content and solid breakdown. Thanks for the other Intel on the ranking system. I will add that a good basis to watch is, when Montverde top teams aren't levels beyond MLS based academies then we are going to be threatening.
Tradeoff bw more competition within academies thru centralized system and more reach thru distributed system is something that should be debated more in the US imo
It’s crazy it’s taken this long
I think since the 1994 world Cup soccer is a very popular sport on the country🇺🇲 And i seen she's 4th in the most popular sports list in the United States🇺🇲
USA Must continue to Emphasize TECHNICAL BALL skills to ALL levels of USA Soccer Player Development.
All the TOP teams and Top players in the world are TECHNICAL.
Look at all those academies in southern california 😍
Mostly because the world cannot let a country who gets the name wrong win
Jajajajajajajajaja so right!
To add to your point about time being an obstacle, it also will take some time to build up a large player pool. It take the US having a larger pool of players to produce world class talent. That's where the US has so much potential. It's also the primary reason the US women does very well in soccer.
US women do well mainly because they found a developmental path that creates world class players via NCAA and club soccer. This doesn't work for the men's side though so it takes longer for them to find and produce quality talent. In the US, I think soccer is the fourth most popular sport amongst female youth in high school, where track & field, basketball and volleyball are more popular followed by softball.
@@TickleMeElmo55 Even as soccer is only the fourth popular sport among girls, the sheer size of US ensures it'll have a pool about as big as the top 5 UEFA nations combined. NCAA, despite being the biggest route for womens football development has never been a reliable institute to develop good soccer players (mens side has proven this) and our reliance on them to develop our women hasn't had as good as result compared to our potential. European academies have already churned out better technical players due to domestic club resources. What kept US elite in womens international side is individual European/South American nation's player pool is comparably much smaller and US pool is large to the point where a lot of individual talent can rise because of the head start Title IX gave (compare to Europe/Brazil where women were banned from playing soccer until the 70s)
I can't wait till it happens. I will be there no matter what
At minimum, we'd need to quadruple the minutes our club players are getting in top 5 leagues in Europe as well as increase the goals we score by even proportionately more than that. So, to give an idea, we'd need to start about 4 times as many players in top 5 European leagues than we do now AND we'd need to score about 6 times as many goals in those leagues.
The main thing that needs to be done is the US should focus more and scouting top players around the country rich or poor, rather them have a pay-to-play type of system.
Your scripts are really well written/spoken. You’re on your way man!
I am hopeful that as MLS expansion continues, one of these small market teams decides to take the approach of being a Chivas-style American-only club from its age group and lower tier clubs right up to the senior team. That could make a lot of sense for a small market club as they say to themselves, We won't ever be able to sign big name international talent. What if we can corner the market on American talent?
Granted, the European development path will continue to be the way in which our players become as good as they can be. Even in the short to medium term, however, getting our very best age group national team players together for more than just the youth national team would be incredibly valuable in terms of building continuity and familiarity with one another. And in the long term, as MLS continues to raise its overall quality and the coaching situation becomes a lot more elite, this could eventually become the landing place for all of the very best American players in their professional careers (or at least a place where all of them spend a good chunk of their careers). Imagine the "second national team" of the United States squaring off with Chivas in Leagues Cup competition. Imagine such a team getting qualified for CONCACAF Champion's League play, then navigating through it and ultimately making an appearance at the Club World Cup.
The point is, when your national team players also play together professionally- and they routinely involve themselves in large, high stakes professional matches- that gives you so many more opportunities to get a look at depth pieces, try different strategies, and build familiarity/continuity. Now, granted, Mexico has been doing this for quite a long time and it hasn't turned Them into a true global powerhouse. On the other hand, Chivas is easily the most popular and profitable team in Liga MX and I seriously doubt that anyone truly wishes that they hadn't ever done this. I don't think anyone looks at this as a mistake that should have never happened. And there's just one more thing.
What if the US copies what they did and then the US Does succeed in becoming a true global powerhouse? Wouldn't that be a kick in the teeth? Fans of Mexico would hate that so much, and we should absolutely do it. I hope this happens, and I expect that such a team would get a massive outpouring of support from some small market place in the middle of America.
The rights are regional in MLS, so that keeps this type of tiered system from happening.
I'm in the UK and I'm impressed.
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We should of tied Germany if not for a bogus hand ball on the goal line
No pienso que nada esté deteniendo a America de ser una potencia mundial de fútbol (soccer), últimamente las cosas se están haciendo bien, como la obtención de derechos televisivos, como la inversión de empresarios para fortalecer a los equipos y las divisiones menores, como la llegada de estrellas mundiales a la liga (lo cual atrae la atención de la prensa local e internacional y motiva a los jugadores jóvenes), etc… pero también es de notar que todo esto fue producto de la globalización y al acceso a internet, que trajo paulatinamente los ojos de los fans del fútbol a America, y los ojos de los Americanos al Fútbol.
It was meant to be ❤️😂
Pd: I’m Colombian but I’ll be supporting the US in the World Cup 🇺🇸🇨🇴
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All of the USA best athletes play football, basketball and baseball.
Yes for sure
100 plus years of culture and understanding .
It has to be in your bones , and it's not in your bones yet
Even the name of the sport, they got wrong!
This is sort of a "passage of time" thing--where the "passage of time" is important, because how we deal with the time passaging is important, because the "passage of time" makes the players older cos time passes, and uhhhhh stuff. Cheers, Sam!
In my best Captain America voice: "I understood that reference."
Interesting side note: The referenced "passage of time" speech was actually given in a small town halfway between Sam's and my hometown. Maybe that's why he's got it stuck in his head.
I got aids reading this
@@nicholasjagneaux It was pretty poor oratory by said person. lol. Gotta do better than that, for sure. Glad someone got it.
I feel like our U20s are showing a different level of technical development already. Sure most of the opponents were low quality but those kids were pinging the ball around like no U20 I've ever seen before. All it takes is 3-5 quality players from each age group to form a solid, deep senior level team. The level of effort put into development in this country over the last 10 years (and only getting better funded) surely can find 3-5 stars per year??
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This is a way too early prediction, but i think in 2026 you'll make the quarters, you should aim for the semis, youre producing some quality players nowadays
🙌🏽🙌🏽
Matt Turner. Had a rough start with Arsenal.
Thanks Sam. New Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has been saying similar things for a few months now, and his work to bring the game to even more Americans is only going to help.
It's incredibly cool to see this beginning. And remember, your 12 year timeline is only 3 WC cycles away. But I think we can expect some seriously exciting US soccer sooner than that... in 2026. I think we'll compete well in this one coming up, but I think we'll gain some true world respect in 2026 😁
If current trajectories hold up we can be a force in 2026. I don't think we'll be a favorite, but I think it's going to be the changing of the guard moment.
@@YankReport Yah. The point you made about untapped resources really got my attention. *That* is something to give us some real optimism. The infrastructure being developed to tap into all that potential is finding *a hundred* 8, 9, 10 year old Pulisics and Gios and McKennies and Aaronsons... *right now* .
I'm not in a rush, but I can't wait 😉
Time?? Wrong. The real answer is the best and most skilled US athletes are not playing soccer, they are getting into football and basketball, thats the real answer.
It's all about the defense. USA can produce from midfield up and the goal keeper position. The defense has always been suspect. Once they have the defense on lock down then... sky is the limit!
Respectfully disagree. We have had plenty of defenders who are able to make the grade in Europe. Gooch, Lalas, Cherundolo, Cameron, etc. In fact for years we made our reputation based on being very tough on defense, hustling and just making it hard to score. What we haven't had are guys who can put it in the back of the net at the international level. Even today, what is our biggest need? All our best players are creators. But until we start developing finishers, we will never take it to the next level.
It's time, and money,,, Not sure how the second half wasn't mentioned.
I like the US national team because I like some of your players a lot like Reyna, McKennie and Aaronson but I mean, this question is kinda obvious. You're the 3rd most populous country, the richest, the most diverse, and for sure one of the countries that invests the most in sports in general. It's kinda surprising y'all aren't already really good because yes, in the last years you did quite good in the wc but you kinda overperformed because the team was not good at all. So yeah we'll see, I hope y'all won't completely boss this sport like you do with others because it would take some magic away but honestly don't think it's gonna happen because some countries are just too good at it. Excited for the future of the sport
I think outsiders don't realize entirely just how small of a sport soccer has been historically in the United States.
While we are a population of say 300 million, maybe 5% of our male athletes have any interest in the sport at all and often the top athletes have been multi-sport athletes that would rather play basketball, football, or baseball than soccer. So in practice we've played soccer like a nation of 15 million people not a nation of 300 million.
Literally, in the United States you have people living in cities with professional soccer teams that are surprised to discover their city has a pro soccer team. In the United States the men's world cup can happen and many people in the country will be unaware that it is happening.
But things are changing. While soccer has been seen as a good girl's sport for many years now, it's increasingly being seen as a better youth sport than baseball. And as more and more young people play organized sports rather than unorganized 'pick up' sports, soccer is gaining an edge on baseball. And, if that trend continues, in 20 years the USA could be regularly crushing Germany like a grape.
@@celebrim1 the problem that I see is that many of these athletes are old enough to practice soccer, both in Europe and South America the average age to start soccer is 5 to 8 years, it can be considered that 9 years is too late to start, since From 5 to 8 years old, children develop quick decision-making and the intelligence to read the field of play. There are children and young people with good, fast and strong physical abilities who remain in the soccer training process due to lack of intelligence in the game
@@paqyita In my experience as a coach, players under the age of 10 don't really develop any soccer specific skills that they can't pick up later. If I'm coaching a 10 year old multi-sport athlete with little soccer experience, but whom has played flag football, basketball, or hockey he's going to have all the quick decision making ability he needs to read the field, and all that needs to be put into him is the understanding of the game necessary to make the right decisions as he sees the field.
I will say that unlike say American Football or baseball, it is needed that they begin soccer training by say age 12, because unlike most American sports soccer involves some specific skills that humans aren't naturally good at. Most American sports a kid can start picking up at 14 or 15, but this is putting them behind the curve significantly for soccer because of the 'unnatural' demands soccer puts on the body. But nine is certainly not too old to start learning. And really, 5 year old learn nothing useful specific to soccer. It's really just about getting them fit, which any sport would do.
But all of this is beside the point, because soccer is already the premiere youth sport in the United States. The problem with development in the USA is definitely not that we don't start kids playing young enough. The bigger problem is that most of the kids who are good at it start soccer at 9 or younger but quit at 14 or 15 to focus on sports with more prominence and for which they get more respect in the USA. No one cares in most High Schools in the USA if you are captain of the soccer team, but the or stars of the football team get massive respect from peers (both male and female). Soccer is not perceived as a worthwhile or manly sport by most Americans, and players typically only stay in soccer if they lack the athleticism or size to compete in other more traditional American sports.
I am not sure if everything you say is correct, but it actually makes sense. Sports like tackle football, baseball, and basketball attract the top athletes. It's cool or sexy to be on a tackle football, baseball, or basketball team. Soccer is not sexy, not American, not worth our time. Most of my friends who played soccer are middle & upper class caucasian kids or recent immigrant Mexican kids. Even the Mexican-American kids who can't speak Spanish played tackle football, baseball, or basketball. But I think there is a bias for large size and fast speed in American athletics. I noticed you mentioned the same thing, i.e. large size (height and weight or strength). I remember how Doug Flutey was treated when he graduated from Boston College. He had to go to the Canadian Football League, and he won championships there. Flutey could only get a backup role as an NFL quarterback even though when he substituted for an injured quarterback he always won. Look at the two Argentinian Legends, Messi and Maradona. Messi is 5'7", Maradona is 5'5". If they grew up in the US would US soccer coach rated them as too short and benched them. If so then 2 of the greatest soccer talents in history would have never got the chance to play. Maybe in America we are too focused on size (height and strength) and speed. Maybe in America we should focus on aptitude for the game. What can a player do on the field of play. If you look at Barcelona's greatest winning team they occurred with Messi (short, quick enough, not world class sprinter). Backing Messi was Xavi, Iniesta, & Busquest. Xavi and Iniesta are short like Messi. Neither were world class sprinters. Busquet is 6'1" so he is tall but is skinny and not heavy or muscular, and not world class sprinter. But when Xavi, Iniesta, and Busquet backed up Messi from midfield Barca dominated La Liga and the European Champions League. Maybe Americans need to judge players by what they do on the field, and not by their sprint time and height.
@@duckbizniz663 it's Crazy to hear that because in my country if you played baseball you'd be considered really weird while american football Just doesn't exist, soccer is the cool sport and basketball is considered cool as well but few ppl play it
Depends if i decide to play for USA or Germany
Hugely anticipated decision.
They could if they become atleast number 2 in sports in the USA it will happen just how long
I think we've hit a tipping point. American youth athletes now see a very real route to elite professional careers in soccer. Show the American population a big pile of money somewhere and they will fight their way to it relentlessly. This is especially true of elite athletes that might not have the size for a pro career in football or basketball.
Clubs are putting so much money into their own system but fail to uplift their surroundings. Tax breaks for facilities could be made into accessible Futsal courts and accessible full size pitches. I think it’s an overall symptom of US society in which we are singular minded (in this case solely our club) and want to do everything ourselves. Also the fact that we don’t give the “free market” the ability to come up to the biggest stage ie MLS, hinders the ability for the game to mean anything to someone outside of an MLS club
Here is a quick fix for you! Play Pulisic, McKinney, Adams, Weah, Reyna, Musah, Aaronson all together some how
as an Iranian without watching your video the answer is you have the potential but because geography you are in it. this will be more uncompetitive and boring seeing US wins everything at concacaf but no real competitor
like what Iran does at asian futsal
they should mix asia and europe and add some teams to european like isreal played euro u19
Actually winning is never boring
@@samplingmastersxlr8660 winning easily is boring
@@bigt6665 not if it’s a challenge every time
But again that’s the aim of elite sport to win , if you feel otherwise then this isn’t for you
That's why it's important to schedule many friendlies as we can to compensate.
I would say yes the US will become a world football power
We are the biggest team in North America
It can but it needs to have a competitive domestic league and have pro /reg to drive up competition and investment in teams with the academy’s, coaching and foreign players . That the one thing that the top league have is competition within it country . Mexico i going to feel the down fall since they got rid of their pro reg system . The US needs to adapt the European and South American model that has worked for almost 100 years . Competition leads to development , complacency doesn’t that easy
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If only we can get Pulisic to wear the shirt. That. Would. Be. Glorious.
This reminds me of Tropic Thunder- I’m the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude!
After scoring first goal team USA must increase it’s offensive attack; take risks and score more goals: no matter who the opponent is; All the best: go USA 🇺🇸
Yes as soon as you call my son Dameon up best U16 CDM in north America.
In the ELO rankings. The top 8 teams are on another level. The USA is in that 2nd tier.
I am a person who loves soccer very much. I am against relegation. What if a big club is relegated by a promotion system? There will be fewer spectators, lower salaries, and a huge drop in popularity. That's crazy
Quite the opposite...You definitely have not lived in a real football mad country, to understand the level of passion and love for your club when the dark prospect of being relegated is around the corner. MLS needs Pro-Rel if wants to grow its fan base.
@@Turtlefast235 wym the opposite?your saying relegation gains fans?promotion might but that’s no promise
That s sport
You can be a "soccer power" all you want, but don't forget that only 1 team can win the World Cup. The way is narrow indeed.
Time.. yes. But I'd add Focus, Patience and Hard Work. Time without Focus, Patience and Hard Work, will add nothing but age :)
Perhaps because our 5th-best level of athlete plays soccer. You think if we had NBA/NFL levels of athletes on the USMNT this would be an issue? LeBron in goal. AI in the midfield? Kobe at striker?
Do you see any top soccer players that look like Lebron or Kobe? Do you see any top basketball players that look like Messi?
@@YankReport absolutely. Ibrahimovic is a less-athletic Kobe, as Donnarumma maps (albeit unfavorably) to LeBron. A midfielder with Iverson’s athleticism would run circles around Messi.
Let’s not even speak of a winger with the athleticism of Deion or a center (soccer) fullback with say, the presence of Bo Jackson.
@@robertoswald1112 "A midfielder with Iverson’s athleticism would run circles around Messi."
Or how to say I don't play soccer without SAYING "I don't play soccer"🙄
The great wrestling legend Rick Flair would always said. “To be the man, you got to beat the man”!! USA got to beat England to get that.
England? For God's sake, beat Brasil, Germany, Italy or Argentina, those are heavy weight powers!
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Short answer: no
Long answer: I think that US team will be a second potencial poweful team like Sweden, Portugal, some sudamericans national teams, so on, but, I think you need to fix somethings in your domestic football, for example, the relegation, improve the conference Concacaf, take more games with potencial national teams and clubs of Southamerica or Europe, and doing quality championships with Central America and all America(s)...
Being a mid tier football nation is a more realistic expectation.
We are already a mid tier nation
USA is a sleeping giant of world soccer. Vast athletic talent that if channeled into soccer could be a dominant force.
Can you imagine Lamar Jackson passionate and trained in the beautiful game??? 😤
pls just stop with this narrative that y'all invented that good athletes are potentially good in every sport they choose, it's bullshit
@@lorenzogiomarelli7983 he said imagine if Lamar Jackson was “trained” in the beautiful game. NFL players are some of the greatest athletes on the planet. Do you really think if they were trained from youth they couldn’t compete with the world’s elite? I hope this doesn’t come off as condescending, I genuinely would like to hear your thinking on it.✌️
@@protokazyii1743 I know what he meant but here's my opinion. It's not like an incredible athlete like him would automatically reach the same level at another sport if he trained hard enough. Respectfully y'all overestimate athleticism, it's very important but there are some of the greatest players e ver who don't even have that much. In this sport there are so many other important things. The typical american phrase "what if our top athletes chose football instead of basketball, american football..", has never made sense to me. For sure if all of them chose football you'd have more talent but the best in basketball wouldn't automatically be the best in football. Thanks for asking respectfully and sorry if it's too long and for my english
@@lorenzogiomarelli7983 thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate that you took the time to make your case. I can understand the argument your making. However, I do believe that the overall level of soccer would be higher if better U.S. athletes played the game. As you said, soccer is an incredibly technical game. Top nations train their best athletes from youth. This allows the best athletes to learn the skills to become technically gifted. Technical skills can be learned, pure athleticism can not. Two players could have the same technical ability but the one who is a better athlete would be the more useful player. In the U.S. our greatest pure athletes go play American football or Basketball. Due to this, the soccer players we have are less impressive physically. Although skilled, many don’t have the physicality to compete with other countries best athletes. I believe that if better athletes participated and were trained from youth the team would be more competitive and have a higher floor. However, I recognize that this is a completely speculative debate. Thanks for your time!😃
@@lorenzogiomarelli7983 If soccer/football were always the USA's sport, and everyone grew up playing it, the USA's best athletes would adapt to the soccer playing physique. It would also be like basketball and American football are now; you wouldn’t have this pay to play thing that made the sport upper middle class. And no one is saying Lebron James would be like Messi. But there are tons of people like Steph Curry or Chris Paul, but mostly guys who we have never heard of, who would be amazing soccer/football players. Also there would be a ton of like 5’8-6’0 guys who were too small to play in the NBA who if they grew up in a soccer playing nation would have been star soccer/football players. The US would have players like Paul Pogba and Harry Kane, and in a nation of 330 million if soccer/football were always the USA's top sport and we understood how to develop players properly, they’d have technical players. The French/English example I think is the best if soccer were our top sport; the USA would have players that are generally more physical than the Spanish, but who are still extremely skillful, except even more quality players because our population is over twice as large and England and France combined.
They could become. Power because they have a very large population so even if 80percent of highly give athletes go to other sports that is still a lot of players
It is not time. Yes, after a while America might fall in love with football (soccer). When I was growing up everyone in the US said in 20-30 years the US will become a world football (soccer) power. That has not happened. The fact that I have to keep using "(soccer)" after the word "football" says that in America football is a team sport played with a fig shaped ball. Maybe a miracle will happen. Maybe America will create a soccer development system that produces world class soccer players. But it is unlikely that soccer will become the dominant team sport in the US anytime soon. Americans are different. We love football (fig shaped ball), baseball (very American), basketball (very American), and even ice hockey (very Canadian). Soccer? Too international. Not Norte Americano. Pele could not get Americans interested in soccer. But we are Americans and we love challenges. Right?
No chance…period. Lack of top league coaching, an insistence to pull squad players from lower leagues like the MLS and finally the USMNT hierarchy think they know football and they clearly don’t.
I believe by 2050 International football will be more popular than nfl football.And with that good chances the USA could (by then)be a football powerhouse!!!!!!!!!.And compete for the World Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!.
No!!!!!!!!!!
The answer is yes. But how will we know when we're ready, you ask? When our entire roster is full of elite talent and our entire starting XI is filled with names non-American people know and trust to get the job done, legit talent, stars and superstars; the confirmation of this status is playing at the Elite clubs same as the other top players. There are levels to this, there are no shortcuts to the top, there's no stepping over the hierarchy in this sport. Just look at the top 10 national team rosters in the world.
What was the point of making such a obvious comment
@@cummerchant542 How could you not realize this is for the overly excited people in the group that think we're already a great enough team!
Oh boy. The title alone will attract detractors. Grab the popcorn!
@smth 9021 Haha fixed!
@smth 9021 Are you one of the detractors? Handful of them show up on American YT channels to spew their weird, pessimistic, anti-American rhetoric.
Yes but not with the current set of dodos running the US Soccer Federation. You guys have to realize that it's not our players that are keeping us from progressing at a world level. It's the suits behind the game playing politics that's keeping us from dominating the world in soccer.
RHETORICAL QUESTION!!
Yes, the USA is well on its way. We are now exporting players on a regular basis.
A world soccer power exports players.
Soccer's coming home.
@@YankReport- You need to make it to Dallas (Frisco) for the FC Dallas v Philadelphia Union match on August 17th and have some kind of pregame gathering with Meg Swanick & Da Bronco.
There will be current & future national team players on display and it would be a wonderfully symbiotic opportunity for all of your social media channels and for the MLS.
I have mentioned it before and will likely mention it again.
NOTE: Not sure I will be around to attend due to possible stuff taking me out of state. ✈
@@chancemiller9340 lol. That is a helluva pitch. Btw, what happened to Brandon Servania? He hadn’t been starting
@@YankReport- He’s been playing most matches, but is not having nearly the impact that I thought that he was going to after watching him crush that goal from distance and basically boss the midfield.
Since then I think that head a missed a game due to card accumulation (though not positive) and/or dealt with minor injuries.
Pomykal seems to be the dominant midfielder and yet he needs help because they keep giving up 2nd half leads. #😢
United states is coming with fire on this world cup n is gona be look entertaining n waooooo
ENGLAND IS NOT A MAJOR POWER - for shit's sake, even Greece have made more finals away from home. They are like South Korea or Sweden, they just massively overperform at home. If the PL didn't force their teams to play the English, a lot more would be in the lower leagues.
Americans don't cry when their national soccer team loses. Isn't it different in other countries?
If Uruguay was a great power at 1930 with little population, Hungary in the 50s with comunist and even Croatia got in recent years twice between the top 4 in a WC.. Of course the US can get there, but to be real, even now you are very far away from that status
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They are all football nations
Free youth leagues would fix this problem.
The US soccer organization should focus on inner cities to promote and recruit players. Another option is to focus on one city like NYC with our 8 million plus people to push the gsme.
As long as most American soccer fans think pulisic would replace Almiron at Newcastle not gonna become monster's. You don't know what you think you know
let me explain you in a easy way to understand how hard is to win a world cup with a few facts about it:
1. The nation that created football is England, England just have one world cup (in a world cup they hosted, also it is their only final ever)
2. Only Spain and England have 1 world cup, the other 6 countries have won it twice or more, what is the point in this one? This are power countries in football so you have to beat them mandatorily.
3. Spain has been always a power country in football for its teams, Barcelona and Real Madrid mainly, and just have 1 world cup and won it just 13 years ago.
4. A non-southamerican or european country have NEVER played a world cup final
5. In the last 61 years only ONE non-power country in football have played a world culp final. CROATIA (they lost 4 - 2 against France, a slaughter)
6. A power country like the Netherlands have never won a world cup, they lost 3 finals.
7. Portugal have never reached a final.
We need to show the world that US soccer is greater than ever 💪 go USA! 🇺🇸 🌟
The good teams have been the same for decades so it’s hard for me to see them becoming competitive. But it’s possible. Belgium 🇧🇪 never was a world power but last decade they were a top 5 team.
Portugal 🇵🇹 has also gone from an above average European team to a top team.
If the USA 🇺🇸 does ever reach those height I do think they will be able to sustain it longer due to money and population size. But reaching top tier status is the problem.
The thing is soccer is the prime sport in Portugal and Belgium, all kids go for soccer. In America, all the gifted athletic kids go for basketball and football
But we also have a lot more kids than Portugal or Belgium. We can out volume most countries in the world even if soccer is not the #1 sport.
@@YankReport part of what you said is true but most of U.S population don't have the passion or knowledge of soccer, it's like a past-time for most of those who play or involve in it. What I want to say that they don't the mindset that soccer is life like a kid in Portugal or Brazil. I think this my hurt the USA from bringing up stars like Ronaldinho, R9 or Neymar while we are sure that there gonna be another LeBron in 2 years.
Also we see that soccer is played by suburban kids whose parents are in middle or upper middle class who can afford "pay to play" system. I am not against rich people but soccer megastars come from the poor in every country. We need to make it affordable for everyone.
I grew up in the Caribbean but when I see this, I am shocked.
@@banditlegal7452 we have a benefit that is larger than ones that other countries have and that's immigrant parents. Star player at my school dad was swedish played it since he was three and probably could've gone D1 or straight to USL/MLS but he has problems with temple, he was chosen for the ATLUTD academy and parents turned it down I think.
@@YankReport If soccer/football were always the USA's sport, and everyone grew up playing it, the USA's best athletes would adapt to the soccer playing physique. It would also be like basketball and American football are now; you wouldn’t have this pay to play thing that made the sport upper middle class. And no one is saying Lebron James would be like Messi. But there are tons of people like Steph Curry or Chris Paul, but mostly guys who we have never heard of, who would be amazing soccer/football players. Also there would be a ton of like 5’8-6’0 guys who were too small to play in the NBA who if they grew up in a soccer playing nation would have been star soccer/football players. The US would have players like Paul Pogba and Harry Kane, and in a nation of 330 million if soccer/football were always the USA's top sport and we understood how to develop players properly, they’d have technical players. The French/English example I think is the best if soccer were our top sport; the USA would have players that are generally more physical than the Spanish, but who are still extremely skillful, except even more quality players because our population is over twice as large and England and France combined.
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If soccer/football were always the USA's sport, and everyone grew up playing it, the USA's best athletes would adapt to the soccer playing physique. It would also be like basketball and American football are now; you wouldn’t have this pay to play thing that made the sport upper middle class. And no one is saying Lebron James would be like Messi. But there are tons of people like Steph Curry or Chris Paul, but mostly guys who we have never heard of, who would be amazing soccer/football players. Also there would be a ton of like 5’8-6’0 guys who were too small to play in the NBA who if they grew up in a soccer playing nation would have been star soccer/football players. The US would have players like Paul Pogba and Harry Kane, and in a nation of 330 million if soccer/football were always the USA's top sport and we understood how to develop players properly, they’d have technical players. The French/English example I think is the best if soccer were our top sport; the USA would have players that are generally more physical than the Spanish, but who are still extremely skillful, except even more quality players because our population is over twice as large and England and France combined.
So to recap, if soccer/football were always the top sport in the US, Lebron James and Kevin Durant wouldn’t be our top soccer/football players, and in fact would likely not be soccer/football players at all. I'll put it another way; if basketball was the main sport in England, then someone like Phil Foden would be unknown; he'd be too small to be a star basketball player. And then people would say "England could never produce a smaller, skilled soccer/football player, as all their top athletes are tall guys who play basketball." Basically, if you have a sport that is popular in your country, then your most known athletes will have the physique of the sport. Because basketball and American football are the top sports in the US, the most known American athletes don't have soccer/football playing physiques.
@@AW-zk5qb We have 350millions Americans. We have more than enough talent that doesn't play football or basketball to field a top notch futbol team (athletically). Our problem is that we never teach these guys to ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME. Gyasi Zardes, Daryl Dike, Jordan Morris, Miles Robinson, and so many others are heads and tails above many first teamers at Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern, etc. in terms of running, jumping, and bench pressing. But ask them to trap, shoot, pass, or dribble a ball and you quickly see why we fail.
Serious question: So in terms of player ability, does it go 1) World Class; 2) Elite; 3) Quality; 4) Average; 5) Poor?
I was talking to my brother today about this. He doesn't follow the USMNT (or soccer in general), and I was trying to explain how our players are getting better than he remembers when we were younger. I referenced Pulisic and McKennie, and I was struggling to put a descriptor on them. I said they weren't "World Class", but I wasn't sure what label to put on them.
Sam, when you mentioned Elite vs Quality, it rang true to me. I think I'll start using the 5 descriptors that I mentioned. And, I'd put Pulisic and McKennie as Quality verging on Elite.
I think all that is fair. Never really thought about it.
I appreciate your optimism, but the MLS is the only pipeline for coaching and no matter how good this crop of players become they will be coached by people who have never succeeded in football at the international level. The USMNT gave up on Klinsmann way too early and now they are too prideful to get another international coach.
Trying to be like Brazil in that aspect.
Klinnsman lost to Costa Rica 4-0 ffs
MLS haters just slowing down the process.
MLS haters are just a miserable bunch, especially if they're Americans. If I could I'd buy them a one way ticket to whatever European or South American country their heart aches for.
Too many skilful players in the USMT roster.
Skillful in the US standards, far from South American or European skill standards.
The answer is yes. 1. Do not alienate college players. The trend of trying to be Europe is great...MLS academies are pumping out players. However, we cannot ignore all of the college players.
Also - big, tall and fat athletes are great for basketball and football - but how many American kids who are not big, tall, or fat and not exposed to soccer drop out of sports?