Add to the pay-to-play system that it's also much more expensive to obtain coaching badges in the US system. It would be great if absolutely everything in this country wasn't designed to squeeze as much revenue as possible out of us.
It goes a lot deeper than families not being able to afford youth soccer. Though youth affordability is a problem, the majority of US athletic talent chases the fame and money of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. It takes a true passion for football to keep kids in and developing, and the US simply doesn’t have that depth of football culture yet. We’re growing in it every year, but we have a long way to go….
As an Australian we have the same issues and there’s too few gatekeepers as to who can compete from positions and registration fees to get into the elite pathway to too expensive before their potential is tapped into. Unlike your country tho, we have too few professional academies that lead to Aleague or to create world class talent to be scouted in Europe. Still don’t know how we still qualify for World Cups.
@@thecounterattack it’s getting like that with the improvement of South East Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia are improving by the day. Our national teams are coach to play with creativity and d instinct and it’s tactically flat and predictable.
Completely agree. We hsve talent we just ignore it. Look at all the mexican american players all the creative ones are chosing Mexico because they still play with that flair. Us wants players like machines
Every great football player ever has come from poor backgrounds, there has never been a legendary player that comes from a rich family. As long as p2p keeps going, US and Mexico will keep failing. Nobody in the US squad would start in the top 5 teams, thinking they can win any important trophy is delusional.
@@demin789 hmm I’m inclined to agree with you but I wonder if anyone has ever done research on the economic backgrounds of top players. Did Messi come from a poor family? Part of me thinks if one of them did they would hide it.
@@thecounterattack Yes, Messi came from a low-middle class family. A low-middle class argentinean family would be an absolute poor one by US standards.
Pay-to-play system it's one of the biggest reasons also the coaching aspect, the coaching is full of scammers and wannabes who doesn't understand the beauty and the potential (still to be discovered and developed) of the new generations. The arrogance of leagues and a a greedy systems that manage money but are not interested in work for the game, build culture and get the best of the unique aspects of the US prospects.
Portuguese here, but fan of the USMNT since 2014. The problem of the pay to play in USA is that the prizes are hella expensive, which like you said, doesn't allow you to have the best players, that usually come from poor backgrounds. Here in Portugal, and I think in all Europe, we have to pay to play, but the prizes are like between 7 and 13 dollars per month. Another thing US needs badly to improve is their coaching system. Soccer isn't only about physique, it's about mentality, technique, strategy. The reason why US are so good on women soccer it's because the women's sport lack of physicality, so most of players are dead by half of game, while the Americans still can run it all. So, the solution for America is to send Americans to European coaching courses or bring European to the country and let them improve their soccer
The US women's team does well because of title IX a law that dictated equality for male and female scholastic sports. This meant American school girls had soccer training at a time when in some countries it was illegal for girls to play sports.
If the talent pool here in North America was as deep as it was in Europe and probably South America, all top 3 of North America’s national teams would be powerhouses in the soccer/footballing. Also the only thing that’s stopping all of us from being seen as such, is the pay to play system, and I must add the possibility of knowing someone who can put your name in a recommendation list
We can fund inner city teams to get the poor kids. In EVERY country it’s the poor kids more often than the rich spoiled kids that make it. The Brazilians and Argentinians come to mind here- football is an escape out of poverty. They have the drive and hunger, literally, hunger. Each MLS team with a minimal investment can pay for an inner city small turf field, set of cheap jerseys and one coach down on his luck or forced to do community service.
The cost of most of these is quite high especially hockey but the USA has a more engrained culture and youth system pipeline for them. Including more readily available facilities
@@thecounterattack Canada is the same, although the community seems to shine for players who are underprivileged (like Alphonso Davies). The soccer community in Canada is relatively small still. We are in the same boat in regards to facilities. As you can imagine, we need a lot of indoor facilities but things are improving.
Culture & priorities. By the time this country started taking football seriously again in the 1990s, the corporatist rot had set in and the sport was sold off. 30 years later we see the consequences.
It’s interesting how Croatia the nation was just born around that time and they with just 4 million people have been one of the best teams in the world since then unlike the us whose been around for centuries and have well over 300 million people
@@etiennedeleage6804 to be fair, I believe the former Yugoslavia, which was a decent European side throughout their history, also had Croatian players but your point still stands
As a youth coach who LEARN AND PLAYED IN HAITI, I RAISED THIS ISSUE AT VARIOUS LICENSING COURSES SINCE i WAS INVOLVED WITH PLAYERS FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. tHE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT UNLIKE ME WHO DID NOT GET ANY COACHING UNTIL I WAS THIRTEEN, BUT I HAD BEEN PLAYING FOOTBALL SINCE I WAS FOUR YEARS OLD AND BECAME VERY GOOD PLAYING WITH ADULTS AS WELL. THE GAME HERE IS STILL A WHITE MIDDLE CLASS GAME. THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE, THE US NEED TO ALLOW AMERICAN KIDS TO PLAY UNINHIBITED LIKE IN BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL. THE AMERICANS ARE "COACHED TOO SOON" AND NOT ALLOWED TO DISCOVER THE MAGIC IN THEM. AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER IS ABOUT COLLECTING TROPHIES BY THE TIME YOU STAR KICKING A BALL AND YOU ARE BRANDED A SOCCER STAR. RACISM IS AT THE ROOT OF THIS ISSUE.
I think USL is a great contributor to end the money taking over the sport and give more local reach and power to find talent but it's still developing so it needs time.
@@thecounterattack I'm a huge Union Omaha fan and they are building a stadium within the next 2 years and it makes me so happy the plans look like a true futbol ground. We've been using a baseball field which hasn't been so bad but a lot of teams in league have shared grounds so I think they'll build stadiums too in time.
Maybe the U.S could convince Messi to become a U.S citizen. That could boost the U.S football team ;) But joking aside, I don't get the 'expensive 'part ? Here in the Netherlands, football is part of the culture. Kids play in the streets, at school and many play in amateur clubs well into adulthood. Even though every kid dreams of being ' discovered 'by scouts from the big teams and major football academies , they all know it's a small chance . Football is played for the sake of football . Club cost plus a few shoes and some jerseys are affordable for every family Amateur football is just having fun. A game, or watching your kids play and having a few beers with the guys afterword is all part of it.
Even if Messi became a US citizen he would be ineligable to play for any nation other than Argentina.fifa rules state that a player must play for any nation in which they play their first competetive match. Yea, i know it wasa joke, but i still had to say it.
the problem lies in the fact that we call football, soccer. pay to play and the corporatization of youth football has ruined the talent pool...the no relegation/promotion in the domestic league contributes as well...
@@danw4711 it usually takes a while to see the benefits of things like Title IX. Also the lack of the same type of investment from the competition. Look at how Brazil & Argentina treat their women footballers. Night and Day.
Who gives a fuck how other people call it? Imagine Americans and Canadians getting all thin-skinned, telling people: StOp CaLlINg gasoline ‘petrol.’ 😂 The Italians don’t call it football either btw
I'm just hoping that the "pay to play" system is evaporated. Why is this a system again? This isn't golf or crocket, y'know. The atmosphere in those football/soccer stadiums (especially during rivalry gamedays) is absolutely stunning. This isn't going to be easy, and the endless insults from the outsiders are still going to be plenty, but it's a work in progress.
Add to the pay-to-play system that it's also much more expensive to obtain coaching badges in the US system. It would be great if absolutely everything in this country wasn't designed to squeeze as much revenue as possible out of us.
@@1anonymousb it’s killing us. Something has to give
It goes a lot deeper than families not being able to afford youth soccer. Though youth affordability is a problem, the majority of US athletic talent chases the fame and money of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. It takes a true passion for football to keep kids in and developing, and the US simply doesn’t have that depth of football culture yet. We’re growing in it every year, but we have a long way to go….
“I’m the most patriotic American you ever did see” - insert “why you always lyyyiinngggg” 😂😂😂😂
🤫🤫🤫 don’t expose me 😂
North American soccer is all about money. The talent pool is not deep enough as the less wealthy do not have access at the development level.
As an Australian we have the same issues and there’s too few gatekeepers as to who can compete from positions and registration fees to get into the elite pathway to too expensive before their potential is tapped into. Unlike your country tho, we have too few professional academies that lead to Aleague or to create world class talent to be scouted in Europe. Still don’t know how we still qualify for World Cups.
Do you foresee a scenario where Australia regresses to the point where you guys don’t make it out of Asian qualifying?
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@@thecounterattack it’s getting like that with the improvement of South East Asia, Vietnam and Indonesia are improving by the day. Our national teams are coach to play with creativity and d instinct and it’s tactically flat and predictable.
@@robbiebalboa yea I can see that especially with all the diaspora talent choosing to play for their parents and grandparents countries of birth
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@@GoranGamerYT appreciate that boss! Thanks for watching
Completely agree. We hsve talent we just ignore it. Look at all the mexican american players all the creative ones are chosing Mexico because they still play with that flair. Us wants players like machines
😂Mexican players are horrible 🤡🤣, find some yankees with south american or europeans parents that can play for usa if you want become better
Every great football player ever has come from poor backgrounds, there has never been a legendary player that comes from a rich family. As long as p2p keeps going, US and Mexico will keep failing. Nobody in the US squad would start in the top 5 teams, thinking they can win any important trophy is delusional.
@@demin789 hmm I’m inclined to agree with you but I wonder if anyone has ever done research on the economic backgrounds of top players. Did Messi come from a poor family? Part of me thinks if one of them did they would hide it.
@@thecounterattack Yes, Messi came from a low-middle class family. A low-middle class argentinean family would be an absolute poor one by US standards.
Nothing but facts here
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Pay-to-play system it's one of the biggest reasons also the coaching aspect, the coaching is full of scammers and wannabes who doesn't understand the beauty and the potential (still to be discovered and developed) of the new generations. The arrogance of leagues and a a greedy systems that manage money but are not interested in work for the game, build culture and get the best of the unique aspects of the US prospects.
Porschettino is here. Not that everything is fine. Pay-to-Play will likely continue, but the team will look much better.
Portuguese here, but fan of the USMNT since 2014. The problem of the pay to play in USA is that the prizes are hella expensive, which like you said, doesn't allow you to have the best players, that usually come from poor backgrounds. Here in Portugal, and I think in all Europe, we have to pay to play, but the prizes are like between 7 and 13 dollars per month.
Another thing US needs badly to improve is their coaching system. Soccer isn't only about physique, it's about mentality, technique, strategy. The reason why US are so good on women soccer it's because the women's sport lack of physicality, so most of players are dead by half of game, while the Americans still can run it all. So, the solution for America is to send Americans to European coaching courses or bring European to the country and let them improve their soccer
@@leozinho7362 good points, American soccer coaches and evaluators are stuck in the stone ages. They would have rejected Messi and David Silva
The US women's team does well because of title IX a law that dictated equality for male and female scholastic sports. This meant American school girls had soccer training at a time when in some countries it was illegal for girls to play sports.
If the talent pool here in North America was as deep as it was in Europe and probably South America, all top 3 of North America’s national teams would be powerhouses in the soccer/footballing. Also the only thing that’s stopping all of us from being seen as such, is the pay to play system, and I must add the possibility of knowing someone who can put your name in a recommendation list
Pay to play as been huge albatross on the us soccer . Find and improve the best players in the country
Why do our women dominate? What does American football cost families? Is it really free in advanced countries of Europe and South America?
We can fund inner city teams to get the poor kids. In EVERY country it’s the poor kids more often than the rich spoiled kids that make it. The Brazilians and Argentinians come to mind here- football is an escape out of poverty. They have the drive and hunger, literally, hunger. Each MLS team with a minimal investment can pay for an inner city small turf field, set of cheap jerseys and one coach down on his luck or forced to do community service.
Is the cost of grassroots soccer in the US different from Football, Baseball, Basketball, or Hockey?
The cost of most of these is quite high especially hockey but the USA has a more engrained culture and youth system pipeline for them. Including more readily available facilities
@@thecounterattack Canada is the same, although the community seems to shine for players who are underprivileged (like Alphonso Davies). The soccer community in Canada is relatively small still. We are in the same boat in regards to facilities. As you can imagine, we need a lot of indoor facilities but things are improving.
Watching as a Dutch citizen - such a small nation - we can’t understand how America is that bad in football while being the best in any other sport!
Culture & priorities. By the time this country started taking football seriously again in the 1990s, the corporatist rot had set in and the sport was sold off. 30 years later we see the consequences.
It’s interesting how Croatia the nation was just born around that time and they with just 4 million people have been one of the best teams in the world since then unlike the us whose been around for centuries and have well over 300 million people
@@etiennedeleage6804 to be fair, I believe the former Yugoslavia, which was a decent European side throughout their history, also had Croatian players but your point still stands
What other sports are they the best in? Baseball? American football?
They're not better than Canada at Hockey.
The women’s team is doing better than the men’s team they know the women’s names around the world. 🇺🇸🦅
No they don’t. I’m from the UK and tbh not many guys I know have ever watched it. Its more young families.
😂🤡🤣 😂😂🤣 i only know you lost to U-15 boys .
any men team is better than that bunch of arrogant lesbians
As a youth coach who LEARN AND PLAYED IN HAITI, I RAISED THIS ISSUE AT VARIOUS LICENSING COURSES SINCE i WAS INVOLVED WITH PLAYERS FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. tHE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT UNLIKE ME WHO DID NOT GET ANY COACHING UNTIL I WAS THIRTEEN, BUT I HAD BEEN PLAYING FOOTBALL SINCE I WAS FOUR YEARS OLD AND BECAME VERY GOOD PLAYING WITH ADULTS AS WELL. THE GAME HERE IS STILL A WHITE MIDDLE CLASS GAME. THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE, THE US NEED TO ALLOW AMERICAN KIDS TO PLAY UNINHIBITED LIKE IN BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL. THE AMERICANS ARE "COACHED TOO SOON" AND NOT ALLOWED TO DISCOVER THE MAGIC IN THEM. AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER IS ABOUT COLLECTING TROPHIES BY THE TIME YOU STAR KICKING A BALL AND YOU ARE BRANDED A SOCCER STAR. RACISM IS AT THE ROOT OF THIS ISSUE.
@@dodivol my fellow Haitian 🇭🇹💪🏾 🇭🇹
I think USL is a great contributor to end the money taking over the sport and give more local reach and power to find talent but it's still developing so it needs time.
@@slothgraveyard3511 💯 love USL and they have some of the best grounds in the country. Hoping to make it out to some matches this or next year
@@thecounterattack I'm a huge Union Omaha fan and they are building a stadium within the next 2 years and it makes me so happy the plans look like a true futbol ground. We've been using a baseball field which hasn't been so bad but a lot of teams in league have shared grounds so I think they'll build stadiums too in time.
Maybe the U.S could convince Messi to become a U.S citizen. That could boost the U.S football team ;) But joking aside, I don't get the 'expensive 'part ? Here in the Netherlands, football is part of the culture. Kids play in the streets, at school and many play in amateur clubs well into adulthood. Even though every kid dreams of being ' discovered 'by scouts from the big teams and major football academies , they all know it's a small chance . Football is played for the sake of football . Club cost plus a few shoes and some jerseys are affordable for every family Amateur football is just having fun. A game, or watching your kids play and having a few beers with the guys afterword is all part of it.
Even if Messi became a US citizen he would be ineligable to play for any nation other than Argentina.fifa rules state that a player must play for any nation in which they play their first competetive match.
Yea, i know it wasa joke, but i still had to say it.
@@Whoami691 Bit old as well
US culture is $$$ vs South American culture Survival n Love. Rather take Love
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the problem lies in the fact that we call football, soccer. pay to play and the corporatization of youth football has ruined the talent pool...the no relegation/promotion in the domestic league contributes as well...
Umm... is Wales not a European nation???
Don’t believe we’ve sunk to those depths just yet
As an Englishman - Just Ignore wales.
We do.
Why do the women do so well. Don’t say Title IX cause that was 50 + years ago
@@danw4711 it usually takes a while to see the benefits of things like Title IX. Also the lack of the same type of investment from the competition. Look at how Brazil & Argentina treat their women footballers. Night and Day.
Too many excuses. America sucks because Americans don't care about soccer. Dudes that is.
Stop calling Football "Soccer" that's the first step.
@@ashishd380 you ask for too much
Who gives a fuck how other people call it? Imagine Americans and Canadians getting all thin-skinned, telling people: StOp CaLlINg gasoline ‘petrol.’ 😂
The Italians don’t call it football either btw
Who's gonna tell him about Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and Italy.
Is not their fault, imagine suddenly football all over the world needs to be called soccer, nobody would obey that 😂
@@thorazine8402 Im sure you Colonials from the colonies would get very pissy if everyone started calling you 'british'. :)
Oh but we won;t go there.
I'm just hoping that the "pay to play" system is evaporated. Why is this a system again? This isn't golf or crocket, y'know. The atmosphere in those football/soccer stadiums (especially during rivalry gamedays) is absolutely stunning. This isn't going to be easy, and the endless insults from the outsiders are still going to be plenty, but it's a work in progress.