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Some of you brought up the World Cup
ugaforever
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US Men couldn't even get past qualifying. Which is a serious statement on the lack of talent. USWNT just went up on Japan 4-1.
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What’s your point?
Comparing the men and women's team is not a very good comparison. USA was one of, if not the first to, have a women's program and it has by and large dominated since it started. What is truly sad is that Iceland with a population of 334,000 people puts a team in the World Cup. Croatia, with a population of 4.1 million, puts a team in the final. The U.S. with a population of 325 million can't put a team in the World Cup.
Probably because our best athletes are out playing DB
U.S. top athletes are playing football, baseball, and basketball. Soccer takes the seat in the back of the bus.
Not making the world cup given our region was a serious disappointment. But at this stage we are nowhere near contenders whether we qualify or not. Us not making the world cup might be the exact change we need to get some real leadership in positions of power. Sometimes you need to take a step back to take a huge leap forward. Trying to think of a relevant example from UGA but nothing comes to Richt. I mean mind......
Yep, Mark Richt even lost control of US Men’s International Football Team....
I got this.
The countries that made and won the world cup do what we do in football and basketball for soccer. Their kids came out the **** kicking a soccer ball. Our kids her don't have the training to compete yet. Soccer is slowly getting more popular, but until it catches on as an exciting sport "we" watch here in America then we will always get bounced early. We need about 20 yrs of really good athletes playing the sport and nothing else for this to take shape. We are also behind in Cricket lol.
As well as in field hockey.
Don't forget curling, it's huge in the Scandanavian countries I hear.
What's wrong with the USA's recruiting?
Mark Richt lost control of USA recruiting.
It was an off topic, on a slow night. My point is USA Men's Soccer s-ucks balls. Just like watching Women's tennis is better than watching Men's tennis.
For whatever reason, US women tend to do much better than the men’s team on the world stage. I think the men’s soccer team will be back next World Cup...but I never could figure out how a nation of 300,000,000 sport fanatic people can’t produce a soccer team capable of dominating North America and the Caribbean. It certainly was shameful to miss the WC cut. No excuse for it.
Soccer sux