Belgium did the same , changed the whole setup of the youth training etc
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At least our anthem isn't sung to praise one person who was given a title, not based on any merit or accomplishment, but simply because of the fact of what family she came from.
Don't you hold big parades to celebrate her like they celebrate Kim Jong Un in NK?
What's that got to do with NFL players taking a knee? Nothing. Most English people don't like our national anthem. It's just something sung before international matches. It's short, that's the main thing!
Anyway, you Yanks sure are a sensitive bunch, can't take any criticism. Arrogant as well.
Stick to baseball, basketball, your 'football' (which I actually like), whatever. Leave football to the rest of the world.
I didn't say anything about NFL players taking a knee. Frankly, I agree with them taking a knee and think playing the anthem before sports is unnecessary. It wasn't the Americans on here that made this thread about patriotism or nationalism.
You say Americans are arrogant, but you are the one telling us to stick to our own sports?!?
What sport is England good at? Based on your performance in tournaments it's clearly not football.
Whatever. I remember the 'We Win, 1-1' headlines and jibes against the English team after the last world cup. That's the problem when you invent sports that the rest of the world take up, there's a chance they might beat you. ;-)
Anyway, all we can do is support our team, support our country. It's only a game.
I'm glad America haven't qualified, sorry!
Anyway, all we can do is support our team, support our country. It's only a game.
I'm glad America haven't qualified, sorry!
Not rebuilding so much as growth. We didn't produce enough players from 1990-1994/95 and it's showing now that those years are in the spotlight.
With MLS academies kicking into full funding over the last ~5 years, MLS expansion into more markets + growing financial security should raise the level of domestic play, a stable 2nd division giving professional minutes to 15-18 year old players (doubly important since we can't get kids into major European setups before 18 without a Euro passport), more coaches across the grassroots levels getting better training/more licensing, the U.S. player development should be looking up.
Bad cycle, disappointing result, but people on social media need to stop calling for "major changes" in the sport here...the changes are already being made.
If Friedel has any interest in coaching the national team, I would give him the keys for the next five years. Play the youth and let the coach/players grow into it over the next cycle.
If you feel like that why do you support Spurs? Nearly half the England team play for us?!
Maybe you'd be better off supporting Barca or Bayern!
LOL @ us. Oh well. But I can't even pull for Georgia now since they got bounced too.
That's a "nonsense" that always get banded about on here when England get knocked out.
Half of the English Spurs supporters on here don't even care for the English National Team. Should they not be allowed to support Spurs as well?
Says the Scot......in a thread about America getting knocked out
I suspect you missed the point.
Truce! No more bashing US patriotism. It is what it is, and ain't going to change. Post about how awful Trump or US neo-imperialism is on the appropriate thread (not this one).
Now, on to dissecting this woeful USMNT wold cup qualifying performance:
Klinsmann and Arena both stuck to a pool of players who had got complacent and with quite a few past their mediocrity. One or two decent prospects aside, they don't have enough young players who are good enough to sweep away smaller nations (even Pulisic isn't that special).
The reason for this is twofold:
Firstly, most US players play in a very, very poor league where horribly inconsistent individual performances can be gotten away with. A team can have 4 players on it playing like absolute clowns and that team might still win because so do the other team. I've watched many an MLS game and it's more Benny Hill than Remember the Titans. Fun but not at all serious.
Secondly, despite a huge number of young people playing soccer at a pretty decent level with good coaching and facilities (I know, I was one of them many years ago), very few make it to the upper tiers of the game. This is because soccer is not the type of sport that fits in very well with the talent-to college-to pro-route, as used by all other US sports. A good soccer player needs to be identified at about 6-7 years old and taken into a club youth system from that age. This is because the techniques needed to be even an average player take over a decade of supervised honing. Until MLS clubs have their own academies like European clubs do, the US will never have a decent USMNT.
Now, on to dissecting this woeful USMNT wold cup qualifying performance:
Klinsmann and Arena both stuck to a pool of players who had got complacent and with quite a few past their mediocrity. One or two decent prospects aside, they don't have enough young players who are good enough to sweep away smaller nations (even Pulisic isn't that special).
The reason for this is twofold:
Firstly, most US players play in a very, very poor league where horribly inconsistent individual performances can be gotten away with. A team can have 4 players on it playing like absolute clowns and that team might still win because so do the other team. I've watched many an MLS game and it's more Benny Hill than Remember the Titans. Fun but not at all serious.
Secondly, despite a huge number of young people playing soccer at a pretty decent level with good coaching and facilities (I know, I was one of them many years ago), very few make it to the upper tiers of the game. This is because soccer is not the type of sport that fits in very well with the talent-to college-to pro-route, as used by all other US sports. A good soccer player needs to be identified at about 6-7 years old and taken into a club youth system from that age. This is because the techniques needed to be even an average player take over a decade of supervised honing. Until MLS clubs have their own academies like European clubs do, the US will never have a decent USMNT.
Oh we got a fair few more points than you did
Trust me they do care, just pretending not to.
If England go all the way to the final, with Harry leading the line, supported by the likes of Dele, Dier and Winks, they'll soon be proud Englishmen once again, God Save and all that.
It's really only since 2010 imo that it's become 'hip' to hate the national team.
I don't discredit any of the points you made, but none of them are an excuse for not qualifying. Based on the size of the country and the amount of money spent we should have been able to qualify regardless.
