USMNT - Turning Point?

The game v Brazil was bout our ladies best, but we weathered the storm and survived.

Argentina gave Canada fits and we’re unlucky not to grab a point. Wednesday’s games will be interesting.
 
The game v Brazil was bout our ladies best, but we weathered the storm and survived.

Argentina gave Canada fits and we’re unlucky not to grab a point. Wednesday’s games will be interesting.
Have to say that Brasil team was good. dynamic, skilled they are going to be a contender for years to come. I think Canada surprised us we had problems with them when we shouldn't. guess we will see, think the ARG game will be a blow out, we should put the smackdown on them.
 
Have to say that Brasil team was good. dynamic, skilled they are going to be a contender for years to come. I think Canada surprised us we had problems with them when we shouldn't. guess we will see, think the ARG game will be a blow out, we should put the smackdown on them.
I’ll drink to that!
 
For the Canada game, the US squad just looked like they were all having a bad day until the subs came in. I have never seen Macario have so many poor touches. Sauerbrunn had at least two 15 yard first touches/passes to the other team that looked like they came off her shin guards. I don't think it was indicative of the team, they just looked rusty and like the planets were not in alignment or something.

The US team looked better against Brazil. I am glad Macario did not play against Brazil. No need to add that dynamic to a friendly.
 
So are the US genuine contenders for the World Cup in 2026? This article builds a case that they are heading in the right direction, and sees the DA as the catalyst for that ...

World Cup 2026: Are USA building towards success on home soil in 2026? - BBC Sport
I have always believed you would start to see the benefits of boys DA around now. Ie a long term thing. Lots of people expect immediate results.

You need groups of kids going through all the years of youth academy and then get some pro experience.

And now we are starting to see increasing numbers of players who are good enough to play in Europe.

Good article
 
I have always believed you would start to see the benefits of boys DA around now. Ie a long term thing. Lots of people expect immediate results.

You need groups of kids going through all the years of youth academy and then get some pro experience.

And now we are starting to see increasing numbers of players who are good enough to play in Europe.

Good article

This could be an issue --

"teaching scouts to identify specific players that fit their desired profile. "
 
USMNT lost to Honduras. US will not be represented in the Olympics this year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...ens-soccer-after-loss-to-honduras/ar-BB1f3V4F

the key difference between the Olympic squad and the first team is that the first team is heavy with players in Europe. The Olympic team lost out on some players who were otherwise occupied with the first team. But it does go to show for all the talk of da and up and comers, our bench isn’t very deep (I’d argue because we still don’t have enough people playing in Europe).

The other issue is the backpass. Sorry but the way us coaching is structured it’s very much on mistake avoidance. Players get yelled at for mistakes instead of creative play being encouraged. So when players like the gk are put in this situation they haven’t trained and don’t know what to do with it. And it’s not just practice....practice is different than a game and then same frantic energy just can’t be replicated in inter team or inter club scrimmages. They have to see situations like that in high level highly competitive games and weve seen even high level European goalkeepers mess it up.

but for the backpass error tie
 
So are the US genuine contenders for the World Cup in 2026? This article builds a case that they are heading in the right direction, and sees the DA as the catalyst for that ...

World Cup 2026: Are USA building towards success on home soil in 2026? - BBC Sport

No. The DA made the US men’s team even worse than it was before. The one thing that makes a country great at soccer is more people play it, more often, for a longer span of years. The DA took a very small group of mostly middling kiddie athletes (but super cute circus jugglers) to move forward, while relegating 99% of pre pubescent boys to second class training, competition, and training until completely running them out of the sport by age 13-14. Even with those chosen few mediocre athletes, it limited how much they can even have fun playing their sport. This is the worst possible way to create a great national team. So the US is now stuck with one itty bitty guy who can play a little at Chelsea so long as he’s surrounded by real athletes, plus mostly a bunch of crap that dumb Americans wistfully claim have “potential” because occasionally they get the privilege of carrying water for real players like Haaland and Ronaldo.

The new crop of players have never even won a real NT soccer game before. Not one. Speculating they can win the WC is crazy talk.
 
No. The DA made the US men’s team even worse than it was before. The one thing that makes a country great at soccer is more people play it, more often, for a longer span of years. The DA took a very small group of mostly middling kiddie athletes (but super cute circus jugglers) to move forward, while relegating 99% of pre pubescent boys to second class training, competition, and training until completely running them out of the sport by age 13-14. Even with those chosen few mediocre athletes, it limited how much they can even have fun playing their sport. This is the worst possible way to create a great national team. So the US is now stuck with one itty bitty guy who can play a little at Chelsea so long as he’s surrounded by real athletes, plus mostly a bunch of crap that dumb Americans wistfully claim have “potential” because occasionally they get the privilege of carrying water for real players like Haaland and Ronaldo.

The new crop of players have never even won a real NT soccer game before. Not one. Speculating they can win the WC is crazy talk.
Mens soccer in the US is bad, that's why all our best players are overseas.
 
No. The DA made the US men’s team even worse than it was before. The one thing that makes a country great at soccer is more people play it, more often, for a longer span of years. The DA took a very small group of mostly middling kiddie athletes (but super cute circus jugglers) to move forward, while relegating 99% of pre pubescent boys to second class training, competition, and training until completely running them out of the sport by age 13-14. Even with those chosen few mediocre athletes, it limited how much they can even have fun playing their sport. This is the worst possible way to create a great national team. So the US is now stuck with one itty bitty guy who can play a little at Chelsea so long as he’s surrounded by real athletes, plus mostly a bunch of crap that dumb Americans wistfully claim have “potential” because occasionally they get the privilege of carrying water for real players like Haaland and Ronaldo.

The new crop of players have never even won a real NT soccer game before. Not one. Speculating they can win the WC is crazy talk.

We are bad at men's soccer. Trying to rationalize why we are bad is senseless.

Maybe hire Calipari and Saban as consultants. They'll be able to find talent.

At the end of the day, a small portion of the US sports viewing population cares about soccer. Some don't even know it's an Olympic sport.
 
We are bad at men's soccer. Trying to rationalize why we are bad is senseless.

Maybe hire Calipari and Saban as consultants. They'll be able to find talent.

At the end of the day, a small portion of the US sports viewing population cares about soccer. Some don't even know it's an Olympic sport.
Try explaining to people why 4+ of our best u23 players are in Europe playing a friendly rather than in Mexico helping us qualify for the Olympics.
 
Try explaining to people why 4+ of our best u23 players are in Europe playing a friendly rather than in Mexico helping us qualify for the Olympics.
Yep, it's as if they didn't want to qualify. Maybe those players just couldn't be bothered? Disfunction to say the least.
 
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