14 responses to “are the USA the best athletes but they have no soccer skills?”

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  Xåvícío ß January 3rd, 2011 at 15:47

  cuz their best athletes are all in to American sports

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  TotTaLY cONfUseD!!! January 3rd, 2011 at 16:34

  No, beacuse they all like mostly lazy sports.

  Landon Donavon could be considered average.

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  DA January 3rd, 2011 at 16:46

  Yea they are the best, if the most athletic people in the U.S. played soccer instead of basketball/football etc. we would have a killer national team and the MLS would be a world-class league. But unfortunately hardly anyone gives a crap about soccer and all those insanely good athletes from the ghettos are chasing the huge multimillion dollar salaries, not like 50k a year playing in the MLS.

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  ChicaBravo09 January 3rd, 2011 at 17:33

  Aren’t some of America’s best athletes fast, strong and big thanks to steroids?

  Some do have soccer skills but some of them make me wonder what the hell are they doing on the US team.

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  VergonDelOcho January 3rd, 2011 at 17:49

  Its hard to get away with steroids in futbol. Although there have been some cases of system roid abuse in the Italian league (can you guys guess why Ronaldo was so fast & strong that his joints & ligaments couldn’t keep up with his muscles… and why he got fat after he moved to La Liga with tighter restrictions on roid use?)

  Steroid use has been justified & rampant in U.S. sports since the cold war… for example U.S. Tracke & Field purposely & knowingly covered up that Carl Lewis used roids… they are a bunch of hypocrites for calling out the East Germans while doing the same thing.

  In any case… futbol is a very complete sport that requires lots of different skills of which track speed & weight room strenght are just a few parts… its hard to get big & sprinter speed if you also need to work cardio to last 90 minutes.

  Also… unlike American Football where every play is designed on a scoreboard and practiced a million times…. Futbol requires more thinking on your feet, creativity & holistic awareness… skills that don’t jive with Anglo-America’s more linear rational culture and which are rare among its athletes.

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  I Meg Mexicans January 3rd, 2011 at 18:36

  mad skills, which is why they have 2x more players in Europe compared to Mexico and the US players actually get in the game unlike the mexican players

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  John F January 3rd, 2011 at 18:47

  Fast, strong and big…as far as the typical US soccer pro is concerned, the first two are probably correct, but I don’t think that American soccer players are any bigger than others elsewhere. US athletes as a whole certainly meet all three criteria though.

  One of the criticisms leveled at MLS is that the American game is all speed and no skill. This complaint seems to come largely from Brits, which is odd, because they also say the same thing about the EPL and like it that way. It also explains how so many Americans do so well in the EPL.

  The criticism is unfounded, IMHO. The skill level in the MLS (and, for that matter, in the USL) is much higher than most foreigners give it credit for. I have said many times here that the upper tier of MLS teams could compete in the lower end of most other nations’ top tier leagues despite the monetary restrictions they currently operate under. The MLS as a whole vastly outperforms its pay grade.

  Consider the numerous obstacles that US soccer faces:

  - Heavy competition for athletes from other US sports with greater traditions and pocketbooks (and if anyone thinks these sports are “lazy”, they are merely demonstrating their own ignorance).
  - Heavy competition from foreign soccer leagues for the better players.
  - Soccer is, effectively, barely into its second generation in the US. Thus local coaching talent is thin on the ground and has to be imported even at the lowest and youngest levels.

  And yet, despite all of this, we still manage to produce a national team that ranks in the top twenty. Yes, the US is a huge country with a ton of wealth and theoretically a massive talent pool to draw on, but as I said, the money and talent are largely drawn elsewhere. So how do we manage it? Well, for a start, Americans in general work hard, and that is most certainly true of our athletes. On an individual and technical level, our soccer players probably are as skilled as any. They may not have the flashiness of South Americans, but they are excellent in the fundamentals of the game. What we do lack, perhaps, is a sense of strategy, which can only be developed from years of competition at the highest levels. Which, till now, is what we have lacked. But MLS is now 12 years old, and we have a large contingent of players in Europe’s toughest leagues. We have an increasing number of younger players coming in with years of experience at the youth level domestically, and immigrants from traditional soccer-playing countries, especially Mexico. Most notably, our national coach Bob Bradley recognizes this and is extremely focussed on youth. He is grooming a group of 18-21 year old players who will have had a chunk of experience by the time the 2010 WC comes around. Expect the US to surprise a lot of people in South Africa.

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  neo b January 3rd, 2011 at 19:47

  he sux miguel cabrero denied him the penalty hahaha landon has no hair on the back of his head i thought he was 40

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  CaroR January 3rd, 2011 at 20:43

  Big, Strong, Fast. Who cares, they can’t score a good goal on good teams like Italy and Argentina

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  Czar January 3rd, 2011 at 20:50

  Well African Americans are the best Athletes if any country in Africa was a first world country they would have the resources to train Athletes and they would dominate every sport all gold in Olympics but they are all third world country so USA uses what it has

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  CopaAmerica Fan January 3rd, 2011 at 21:01

  We the USNT are retarded when it comes to soccer. We suck at it and I doubt we will get any better.

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  drino January 3rd, 2011 at 21:01

  NOO y does everyone think the US is the best in every mother fukin thing. The whole world hates americans because of this. And about their soccer skills hahaha. I’m sorry its just funny thinkin about it. I mean they suk. The only player who has some skills is Freedy Adu. And his not even American.

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  Janet[♥]OCHOA AzulKrema:] January 3rd, 2011 at 21:31

  hellz to the no.

  Like someone else said, it’s all thanks to steriods. and most of the time, the ones who rock at the american sports are all foreingers or however the hell you spell it. Like in the
  MLB, majority kick @$$ players are LATINOS! Most of the gringos there use steriods
  MLS: Latinos are the only BOMB people there. The gringos are average
  NBA: theres an exception, because of players like Lebron James.
  But Anderson Varejao is from Brazil and is BEASTLY

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  Flavio C January 3rd, 2011 at 22:25

  First they have no one to teach them. They also don’t have special schools and programs for them when they are kids. Say for instance there is a 11 year old kid who has potential to be great. If he lives in argentina he would get invited to attend a special school (put on by argentine clubs)with other kids his age. He would practice soccer all day. He wouldn’t attend regular school anymore or work or anything. Soccer would be the rest of his life from then on. In the States that doesn’t happen, that kid would be just a great AAU player and thats it. His talent would not get developed till he graduated high school, and by then its too late.