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people are being hard on US soccer but it's not our thing
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Date: July 8th, 2026 12:58 PM Author: argentine footballer there's only so much a coach can do they just don't have the pool of talent and that will take a long time to change if it ever does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986247) |
Date: July 8th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: Cletus Van Damme ive noticed the press has been very mean spirited. wtf did they think was gonna happen when the us has like one semi-legit player and all the other teams are stacked with premier league talent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986255) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: argentine footballer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986282) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:32 PM Author: "im pumo now" they did fine and better than i expected (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986297) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:34 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, agreed. Pochettino out performed the expectations. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986301) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:42 PM Author: "im pumo now" FIFA is also extremely corrupt, notoriously corrupt Expecting the US to play like countries that put Olympic levels of resources into the game and have decades long recruitment and promotion programs is just absurd This world cup has been very fun to watch though, some excellent performances. I enjoyed the recent Norway game |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, great recap
https://x.com/Uraharastudio/status/2073916550357143646 |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: "im pumo now" Brasil! Meu Brasil Brasileiro Mulato inzoneiro Vou cantar-te nos meus versos Brasil, samba que dá Bamboleio, que faz gingar O Brasil do meu amor Terra de Nosso Senhor... Abre a cortina do passado Tira a mãe preta do cer |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:34 PM Author: cumstein The Belgium game looked like pros versus high schoolers. It was embarrassing. Watching our guys try the same ineffective shit over and over with no idea how to adjust was maddening. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986302) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: "im pumo now" So I heard that the US uses a very different system for recruitment and promotion compared to Euro and African countries and the model we use is supposedly inferior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986308) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, hate to say it but Ream, who i like, got badly badly used. his blunders were almost inexplicable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986311) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: Darnell they did not do "fine"
in the group stage, they beat expectations by a bit. against belgium they fell flat on their faces. there's an obvious, well-known path that less talented teams take when facing superior opponents. they play physical, ultra-disciplined defense and try to score on the counterattack. that's how the us has seen some success in the past and how we saw paraguay keep it close against a vastly superior french team.
instead, the us bought into their press clippings claiming they're the most technically proficient us team ever. against belgium, they tried to possess the ball, couldn't do it because of nerves and inferior skill and got embarrassed. |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: "im pumo now" We spend small dollar on this $port they did fine Belgium is a good team and not a shameful loss at all like that one year a few back where we got smoked in the 2nd round vs Mali or Gambia or the DRC or one of those |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:33 PM Author: cumstein There’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to find 25 American athletes who can learn to pass the ball around effectively. This is fucking stupid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986299) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:43 PM Author: "im pumo now" As a percentage of spending on $port soccer isn't up there for the US I don't think talent is scouted for anywhere near as aggressively as it is for football or basketball |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:52 PM Author: .,.....,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,...,:,..;,.., we're a rich country and have massive pools of athletic talent through college football, basketball, etc. the idea that they can't find and train ppl within a few years is silly. create a d-league with a few dozen or so players and pay them an NFL rookie salary and then have a bonus guaranteed if they make the USMNT in 3 years or so. the idea that soccer is some high level discipline that takes a lifetime of training to master is fucking retarded. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986328) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 2:21 PM Author: "im pumo now" I think that sort of dismissive sentiment in your last bit is part of the issue, many Americans share that and wrongfully so It takes decades to get proper recruitment camps and apparatuses set up and comparatively the US level of spend on soccer has been much lower Personally I thought the US team did pretty well. I remember a few years back the American team got eliminated by Belgium in the first or second round. It's an improvement. The next year's performance will probably be even better |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:06 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe "the idea that soccer is some high level discipline that takes a lifetime of training to master is fucking retarded."
That's actually the truth. There's no star soccer players and virtually no pro's who've made it without having played/trained obsessively since they were 4 or 5. Not the case with sports like basketball and football. Controlling a ball with your feet is not natural. It requires more skill than America's other major sports. |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: "im pumo now" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988268) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 12:04 PM Author: .,.....,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,...,:,..;,.., lol no it fucking isn't. all they do is kick the ball around. it's not fucking hard. the countries who are good at it are because they don't play any other sports and are obsessive over it. it's not an actual sport like golf where you legit need to be ocd obsessive no matter how much talent you have or baseball where you need top 0.01% hand eye coordination. soccer players are just distance runners with above avg coordination. euros and south american kids get pinged from a young age because they have no other opportunities in life or any other sports institutions competing for talent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988279) |
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Date: July 8th, 2026 1:45 PM Author: biglaw associate asking if link is worksafe @ 11pm If they're just outclassed, so be it. But it seems like they don't just lose. They fuck up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49986321) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 10:53 AM Author: tats its like playing scrabble with the junk pieces and no vowels. no hope unless they make zyzz a real word (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988143) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:12 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe They actually did well overall. People got a little over their skis when they saw them crush Paraguay. Paraguay decided to play an attacking style because they underestimated the US and they got burned. If Paraguay played their normal bunker defense it would have been a 1-1 tie or 1-0 US win. With the exception of Paraguay and Turkey (who they lost to) they played shitty teams before facing belgium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988194) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:41 AM Author: Bronus Swagner If we actually had to rely on homegrown players we would never make it out of the group stage. Most of our best players developed in Europe and some of them only play for the US because they couldn't make their real country's team (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988245) |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: "im pumo now" Cr Takes years if not decades of heavy $pend and cultural investment to really get a team going |
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Date: July 9th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: Debunked antisemitic trope countries like france and spain have legit academies for children. youth soccer in the US seems to be mostly about extracting money from parents and making them drive around and stay in hotels. I cannot really fathom the costs given that the sport requires a ball and an open field. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5880781&forum_id=2Elisa#49988277) |