Why the US Sucks at Football



I feel like I’ve been an undercover agent researching this video my entire life. It’s the type of research video only someone that grew up living in both worlds could make. I have always felt like I was walking on a line between my home country and my chosen profession of talking about football / soccer, and this was a story I always wanted to tell.

Who knows how this will all change in the future, but the development of soccer in the United States has been a unique process that everyone seems to be eagerly anticipating, like FIFA, but also dreading because the US will just be different. It didn’t grow up with everyone else, it grew soccer by itself, with all the problems that come with it. You’ll see what that all means in the video.

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The Zealand

Sources

►PFRA Research

►’The History of Professional Soccer in England

►’College Football’s First decade’

►’USA at World Cup 1990’

►Obituary for Gerritt Smith

►CNN

►’The Game of Their Lives’ Book

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26 opiniones en “Why the US Sucks at Football”

  1. There's a great scene from The Big Bang Theory in which Sheldon tries to explain American-rules football to Leonard, and Wolowitz asks him, "How did you learn so much about football?" Sheldon explains that growing up in Texas, you cannot help but learn about football– you're surrounded by NFL, college, HS, pee wee football, which makes it like a religion (or at any rate it would have done, in the 1990's), "…but curiously, they seem to think 'Original Football' is some sorta Commie plot…"

  2. 0:06

    "Least talented sport on earth."

    Mate, YOUR bloody NBA players study footballers' footwork to improve their own game. Hakeem Olajuwon was as great as he was BECAUSE of his football foundation.

    I can't imagine saying something so horrifyingly ignorant. Football fan or not, calling it untalented is fucking blasphemous.

  3. It's all about youth soccer, I'll tell you how it's in Argentina. Let's take Julian Alvarez, he's from a town with less than 2,500 people but by the time he was 15 he was playing for River Plate, one of the 2 biggest teams in the country. That's because we have countless leagues and scouts. Playing is almost free. Finally, we don't play only 2 times a week in training facilities, we play everywhere and every time, in school, in the parks, in the streets, etc

  4. Great video…but dammit call it soccer. I dont wanna sound like I got a European Diiihg in my mouth when Im talking and the word football comes out as if im speaking about Tom Brady or the 49ers or what the line of scrimmage is.

  5. Interesting how the four offshoots of England—the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia—are also the four countries which have historically been the most resistant to football

  6. Lived in America for 15 years and Americans are really finally embracing other sports, Rugby and Soccer are played all over now and even Cricket is understood by a few.

  7. We won’t win a World Cup until we get the players who default to football and basketball…can you imagine having LeBron as a 9? The tops nfl dbs as your wing backs? This won’t happen until we change the youth set up – it’s too expensive so we only get kids who come from a very limited socioeconomic strata … this then means our national team cycle after cycle does not have the best athletes etc. I do hope this changes one day….

  8. The old old old Americans of today wouldn't give soccer a chance because they considered it a communist sport. Russia was all about it. Yada yada. That stunted the growth horrendously. The team now is great. They were the second youngest team in the World Cup, tied a DEEP English team, advanced to the round of 16 to be knocked out by the Netherlands. US just beat Mexico, again, 2-0 in the Nation's League final. Third straight. They have bad games but they are by no means a bad team.

  9. What's really interesting about the history of football in the US is that at one point some football clubs were competing directly with baseball for a while, but eventually baseball took over!

  10. Didn’t really understand your last point about 17 million English fans watching their women’s team lift the Euros and the Americans having 10 million more fans watch them win the World Cup. The populations are vastly different for a start. England fans would make up roughly a third of their 55 million population and America would have made less than 10% of their respective population on viewing figures.

    Other than that it was a great video and very informative.

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