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North Americans? |
Does anyone think that North American (canada and USA) men's soccer teams will never win anything major because they lack the passion for it, as opposed to european, south american's? It seems its not part of the north american lifestyle Soccer here is considered as exciting as watching paint dry. Many deride baseball for the same thing - soccer is considered worse. It has no history here. I actually heard a sportscaster say that the reason the world likes soccer more than any other sport is because they don't know any better in what is essentially a sissy sport. Even in baseball a pitcher can hurl a 90 mph fastball at a guy's head intentionally and not get the equivilant of a red card (thought sometimes they do get penalized). While there are hockey and basketball leagues in Europe it's nothing compared to soccer and that head start soccer had is hurting them and the sport becomes part of the culture. Same here as even hockey in North America is several times larger than soccer will be for the next decade at least. In Canada forget it, we might as well have a hockey stick on the flag instead of a maple leaf. the thing is, in the US especially, there are many more sport choices for American kids than European and other international kids. someday, way down the line, the USA mens soccer team could win something big...at least lets hope so I don't know, Soccer is not a major sport in America so i don't think many Americans care... me being one of them. Well we do have baseball, our version of football, hockey (canadians are big on hockey), basketball and a few other sports we enjoy before soccer, that could be one reason. Another is since it's not big no one invests too much money into it therefore they don't produce too many good players. The American public may lack the passion, but certainly not the players. If they don't win anything, its not because of passion, but because of the lack of skill as opposed to the stronger teams. Then again there are only a handful of European teams that have won a "major" competition anyways, so you can ask the same question about teams like Spain or Portugal and why they have yet to win the World Cup. Also, US has won the Gold Cup many times, so if you don't consider that major then you can't consider the Copa America or the Euro Cup major. its not really passion that we lack. its talent to compete with the likes of Brazil, England, Germany, Argentina, France, Italy that we lack. when we upset portugal in 2002, that was probably our best showing. if we can just make it out of the group stages at WCs, i say that is victory. Absolutly probably not Canada just because they havent been anywhere near successful in Soccer...But for the USA yes...The united states has the most Younger People playing than any other country in the world...so if it stays this way there will eventually be players good enough to match up with the Itailians, French, Brazillians, Argentines, English and German. just give them a few decades :). |
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