Jason Whitlock talks to Alexi Lalas about mediocrity in U.S. soccer and how Jurgen Klinnsman coached in USA’s loss to Argentina.
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Whitlock 1-on-1: Alexi Lalas on the future of soccer in the United States | SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
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And let the passion go into the streets. Cars burning in the streets
Football, that's the real name is actually the simplest game you can ever find. Much simpler than american football!! Yes it's tough you have to run. The reason US sucks is cause everywhere else football is a street game!! In US instead of people playing on the street 5 a side in US kids wait to play on a perfect pitch this pay for play is what kills your chances USA.
Talk about simplifying an argument
do you even know how messi got into soccer
and where he raised? if you know, you wouldn't be surprised.
and if you don't, you're probably don't understand what you're saying.
I find it hilarious that Americans have such a binary, polarized mindest, you people see everything in black and white.
Whitlock won this argument. The other dude is delusional.
Common now if women made it this far, that means the game is getting understandable by folks
In year 2026 bro it will go down for real cause the game is properly been grinded by united states now than before
Dont aim for Messi aim for the best aim for CR7!
The man's right. Passion comes from pain
Whitlock knows nothing , yet is talking more sense then self proclamined soccer expert analyst Alexis Lalas
U.S have sharp players but those players need to come out n reeducate wanabees to play better. U can pick up second Messi from streets, high schools, colleges, galaries n that's how to distribute insiders to figure out hidden superstars.
Guys, guys, guys stop, stop n stop. The thing is that all sports r highly closely related. If u can play one sports, u can do it all I said. I'm doing it till this day, common.
The US has nothing in their sports that experiences the pain and joy that can be caused by promotion and relegation.
Other countries passion for the sport doesn't nearly compare to how people see soccer in the u.s and to Whitlock credit who in their right mindset would predict argentina to lose to a u.s team that is nonsense lol
America understands most sport through school not through its wider culture. Baseball is the exception to this, very much a grass roots game in the US. Football in the US is part of a curriculum not part of life.
90% of the greatest players in history came from poverty or poor working class, from brazilian favelas, argentinian suburbs etc. Pay for play system excludes biggest talents in US, especialy from poor immigrant communities, latin america communities. That is why American scouting system is failing, this is business to make money. Playing must be free, clubs got to have youth schools and academies. Lave the stupid drafts ideas, make free transfer market in America, let the clubs produce youth players and let them make money from selling them.
The other thing is non competitive MLS, some bettere teams comete about titles but the most of the league plays friendly matches all the season. You need good relegation system to make MLS competitive.
Not about toughness. American players don’t understand the game, very low soccer IQ. And they lack the skill.
Simple as.
Alexis Lalas criticizing Klinsmann? OMG
Put your Pulisik to playa against any flayer from argentina who plays for a B divison team and you will see how he fails…
Lalas was smoking something weird…….he is a joke
Ronaldo didn't grow up that poor?
We can't be fooled thinking that a league that has no promoting and descending system can be considered a top competitive league in the world.
There is no way college kids can become world class players in enough quantity to form consecutive winning teams.
The secondary leagues will force teams to pickup players and form a base for the future.
That's the problem…MLS clubs and players have no concept of battling all season not only for the win but also for not loose.
Loosing has consequences and not everyone takes a medal home.
We can't even beat the Central America clubs for the club World Cup finals every December in Japan and this year I believe in Saudi Arabia.
American coaches such as Bruce Arena are not a world class coaches they are outdated and whoever is deciding the future of the USA football has no knowledge on how to create a winning league.
Whitlock's argument is trash. There are amazing players who have struggled, but not all the greats were from poverty
LALAS & DONOVAN, WE HEAT YOU!
Whitlock is just the worst analyst ever ..his just there for the free burgers!
@2:10…the Brazilian team- with your working class heroes- were just lambasted for being soft during AND after their 7-1 loss to Germany. They were criticized for crying, saying that in years past a Brazilian team wouldn't DARE do that…
Lalas, the US is scrappy and would get results because it had heart, hustle and grit. Punching above their weight. Top 30 national teams do this all the time. Brazil, Germany, and Spain sometimes get draws or lose to inferior teams. No one is impressed with US soccer.
Lalas is a shameless shill … but he manages to sound plausible enough, so the outsiders think he has something to say …
Really Buster Doughlas vs Evander as far as a challenge for Mike Tyson this guy is joke!!!
Om my… I didn't know… Now I understand Lalas… He's been wayyy out for a long time ago… How come a journalist who doesn't even know soccer that well, can make a better diagnosis of the situation than a man who played in Europe, who lived of soccer all of his entire adult life??! Oh my….
Americans convince themselves they are better than they really are in most everything they do, soccer being a prime example. When Klinsmann told them they would not win they all went crazy because they do not know football, they tell themselves they do but they don't.
I remember that Argentina game and our defense was inexcusable. Our team needs to live and die for the sport which they currently don't do. They should live it like basketball does in America. I think Whitlock is right. Kids who play to survive will face adversity better than fight harder in many cases. The entitled kids don't play with the same desire.
Mr. Lalas can't face the truth. The host is correct. By refusing to accept constructive criticism is the Achilles of the American citizens. The truth is very devastating. They have not achieved credible ability in the Fifa football realm.
They attract retired European footballers like Beckham in their MLS . It's the retirement home for the soccer players to make more wealth in their twilight years.
Alexi doesn't understand what he is talking about because he was to busy getting dropped off at his boy scout school by his daddy in a Bentley
Americans can't play soccer the only thing they can kick is a nucke.
Donald Trump for coach. Make America Great Again.
The motivation for the game really is a huge issue, in the US it just is played primarily by rich or at least middle class white people that just don't have to fight as hard and simply don't suffer as much as others. Outside of the US In the slums, favelas and townships of the world it's the only way to forget about all the crime and violence and injustice there is and the only way to get out of there, there are a lot of people with that attitude trying to get out of there miserable life condititions by making money in sports in the US, but they just don't play soccer/football. As a middle class german, you don't have to get out, because life is good. It's weird in germany, I think it's one of the only ways to Display national pride as german and when you're a Boy in germany you just play football, you don't think about why. It's just the one thing everyone does and because of that the best way to compare yourself to others.
stop trying to emulate european football, specially english premier league, embrace the southamerican pasion that the majority of your football fans have.
The US is better than England now internationally, England has better club players but internationally England is so sh*t
They won't go to the poor areas because the whole USA team will be full of Hispanics, carribians and Africans.
I really like Whitlocks argument, he's pretty much saying we lack players with more passion and I agree
Great Alexis, finally someone has the courage to tell this bunch of old players and Bruce Arena, what we feel
about them, shame on them, they have the best trainers, fields, counselors, make millions and they play
a mediocre game, Alexis you were short on Gulati and their marajas, they should be fired.
Messi wasn't a poor kid.
can you teach passion???? in Brazil or Argentina (Latin America as a whole) all you need is a ball, you play in the street, US Soccer should hire Belgian execs who changed the culture now Belgium is a powerhouse
All over the world kids aged from 6to 14y or older, would get out of school, invade a street portion or an empty field/parking lot throw a pair of school bags on each side to mark the goals and just play football 3v3 or 5v5…thats how you learn the basic skills and develop your talent , not by going with mom and dad to any sort of expansive soccer academy, it wont work that way.
Look at basketball, most skilled players in the USA learned the game hooping in the neighberhood or in their back-yard basket with friends.
Argentina being mentioned in the same breath as the US in soccer is complete blasphemy
Klinsmann is a terrible coach. Classic example of "great players don't typically make good coaches." He's garbage
Whitlock makes a valid point about soccer being more difficult than a lot of sports, but then goes against that saying that we need players with more "drive" and "toughness" to be successful.
What the U.S. needs is more technically skilled players. We already get by more than we should need to with guile and drive. We need more players who have world class technical ability.
You get that by continuing to work on the youth system in our country. In Europe, a talented kid will be put in an academy and basically be brought up as a professional soccer player. In the U.S., that same kid would play for their local club a few days a week in the summer and then for their high school team for 2-3 months in the fall.
When the U.S. gets serious (and I realize they are starting to) about youth development, you will see improvement up top.
Also consider that 90% of young kids in Europe and Latin America who dream of being a pro athlete are focused on soccer. American kids want to be in the NBA or NFL. The sheer number of kids who actually want to get serious about a soccer career is not as high. That's where Lalas made a valid point about making soccer attractive to kids in the US, and with the growth of MLS, I think that is at least trending in the right direction.