why does U.S have a bad soccer team?

Question

The U.S. is one the biggest nations and we can't produce a good team. what could the U.S could do to produce a world cup winning team, no offense but I got tired of all these ties and loses in games we should of won.

Answer 1

Well for starters if you have a lot of money you'll go far in this sport (at least in my state) and it's about connections. In my state the more people you know the farther you'll get. We also believe in going off how much money your folks have and rather or not the coach is your buddy. We don't pick who goes farther as far as talent is concerned.



Our women's team won the world cup twice: once in 91 and again in 99.

Answer 2

Steven



The USA is usually in the top 20 in the world. You need to understand the game in the United States.



The world has played soccer since 1863. Over 150 years of experience and history in the sport.



For all intensive purposes, the game was not played in the US until the mid 1980's. Those that did play were a population so low, that we could not sustain a growing program. Beginning in the 80's soccer grew in leaps and bounds, and supplied the professionals, and momentum we now have. Today more children play soccer than all the other major sports combined.



It is shocking, that few adults over the age the age of 35 have ever played soccer. Despite our obvious disadvantage of history, knowledge and skills.... the USA has made tremendous gains in the sport. Many predict that we will have a quarter final World Cup finish in the next decade. In about that same time, the MLS will also reach a point of being truly competitive with the top pro leagues in the world.



You can see this very same thing happening in women's soccer. Prior to the 1980's few countries had any women's soccer programs. So virtually all the worlds teams started out without skills, history, and tradition. The US was in the development stage, as was the rest of the world.... What country has been a more competitive than the USA than our women's team?



The signs for the US's men's team to be at the same level if world soccer is coming. WIth all the youth players coming up, with the growth of the quality of the programs, we will be competitive at all levels.



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Answer 3

I wouldn't say that the us has a bad team. We always get in the world cup and get through groups. That being said we certainly are far from the best. When you look at it the us is still fairly new to soccer. Popularity is slay growing which is going to grow the pool with which to choose players from. Some more time would be the best thing for the us to get to that level. The more popular the sport the more people will want to play. Also there are other more popular sports that take up so much of the athletic world here. If you look at Spain everyone there loves soccer. It'll just take some tenbut eventually the us will get there

Answer 4

America has some of the best athletes in the world! Its just that they don't play soccer. All of our best athletes play football, baseball, basketball etc. imagine Lebron James playing soccer. No one would beat him at a header. if our football and baseball and basketball players grew up playing soccer we would be one of the best teams in the world

Answer 5

Because in many countries, if a kid is good at soccer, they'll go to a school based on soccer playing.



In the USA, soccer playing is just a kids game, and it is not important.

Answer 6

China and India have far bigger populations than the USA and they are sh!t at football too.

America is not the greatest nation in the world at everything they do.

Get used to it, the USA can't compete with Europe and South America when it comes to the most popular sport on the planet.

Answer 7

Natural born americans dont have soccer in their blood. But also, they don't have the intense training as other better countires have like Spain, England, Brazil, Italy

Answer 8

Soccer isn't really our thing, culturally speaking. The sport is viewed as something that a kid would do and not a grown man. Because of that there are less soccer players to choose from, and that means that we have to settle for mediocre as opposed to phenomenal.

Answer 9

Spain would lose worse. They could just give the ball to any center and box Spain down and get an east layup/dunk.

Answer 10

too tall and too much weight for soccer

Answer 11

don't be one of those stupid americans who jump on other countries band wagon



stay loyal



we will win the world cup one day its in our destiny

Answer 12

Because there dirty ******* that only give a **** about killing other people and starting wars that they dont pay attention to anything else but their military.

Answer 13

because most Americans do not take interest in soccer