This could be a decent squad if we could fill in the two blanks with quality
Pulisic Striker Reyna
Musah Adams McKennie
Dest Brooks CB Cannon
Steffan
The problem with US Soccer, men's anyway, has never been talent or lack of, it's the whole elitist, pay for play, country club mentality of the people running it. I have no doubt we have a lot of talented kids in this country who never get a chance because they didn't go to the right school or play in the right program.There's tons of talent there. Enough to go deep into World Cups for awhile. But I have no faith in US Soccer management to get results
The problem with US Soccer is that our most talented athletes do not play soccer... They play baseball, football, basketball... Soccer athletes will never be the best while other team sports dominate the society here in the States.The problem with US Soccer, men's anyway, has never been talent or lack of, it's the whole elitist, pay for play, country club mentality of the people running it. I have no doubt we have a lot of talented kids in this country who never get a chance because they didn't go to the right school or play in the right program.
This is somewhat true in that soccer has always been #5 when it comes to money in our major sports from ad revenue/tv revenue/etc.The problem with US Soccer is that our most talented athletes do not play soccer... They play baseball, football, basketball... Soccer athletes will never be the best while other team sports dominate the society here in the States.
Edit: You could have the USMNT train with the USWNT. Perhaps some of their greatness would rub off on the men's team?
I know you know this but was going to add... In The USA... Not the world. Obviously, the rest of the world soccer is king.This is somewhat true in that soccer has always been #5 when it comes to money in our major sports from ad revenue/tv revenue/etc.
Understood.I know you know this but was going to add... In The USA... Not the world. Obviously, the rest of the world soccer is king.
This is the most talent I've seen in the USMNT, especially with all the players overseas.
I just don't know if the coach can pull it all together.
Honduras is well known for their physical play and tactical fouls.It took way too long to get that goal yesterday with a team with this much talent. We've got talent all over playing at top clubs in Europe doing well. We get them in a USMNT jersey and it looks like you've got a rev limiter on them. I truly believe all those kids can make a deep run into the WC. But I doubt US Soccer puts the right people in place to get them there.
Before the Reyna goal, I was actually wondering if they might fire Berhalter at halftime......
Before the Reyna goal, I was actually wondering if they might fire Berhalter at halftime......