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OT: We may win the World Cup in 2026

Fat Koko

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Caliknight said:
The academies are the only way. Not sure of their model but travel youth sports are a racket. They have no incentive to identify the best talent, weed out the others, and focus on development of those who remain. Their model is the opposite. What will help USA Soccer tremendously is their new facility in Georgia. It's arguably the best in the world. Best thing is the intelligence and information focus. It's a central meeting spot for all things USA soccer. From there we will start to see a concerted effort and focus on an American style of play and the development that goes towards it. Spain is the blueprint. When the country understands what it takes to play on the national team, all development will go towards that style of play. Instead, we change with every new coach we have now. Getting away from that will be paramount.
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Blame the parents.

My daughter is on a gymnastics team that travels to competitions every year in Florida, always in the winter and always in South Florida near the beach. It is more about the moms getting their nails done poolside than gymnastics. Plenty of good competitions exists in the Northeast that are day trips or two day driving trips.

The dads put up with it but don't attend the Florida competitions. When I ask my daughter what her favorite part of the trip was, it is always the meal the team ate at whatever fast food place is popular on TikTok that week.
 
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I pick my battles. Daughter leaves the gym with a huge smile on her face every time. Plus, I only pay for her gym fees, not the travel.
 
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An advantage a smaller geography country has is geographically keeping talent closer at youth levels

since our higher talent per capita is so much less than the top teams, we have to build a team of kids to develop together from such a wide area

this is why we must do what USA hockey does to have a US dev team program

USA hockey is by far the most effective national youth program
 
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tico brown

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tico brown said:
Until the US adapts the European/ South American youth sports model of having pro teams run organizations from U10s, U12s, U18s… whatever instead of having the pay for play AAU/ LL/ PW model where parents of kids with garbage skills pay $10K+ / year to play for the Ironbound Rage, the Secaucus Pop Tart Rifflers, Cherry Hill Smog Warriors. You got the organizations like Man City, Man U, Barca, Boca, etc properly train their youth players how to play the game the right way instead of blowing everyone out 11-0 3 times a day to get the Coaches that’s getting all of those payments the Big Trophies
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Need more of like this Manchester City Academies that’s popping up in North Texas in ALL SPORTS instead of the North Elizabeth 10U Silver Truckers that’s run by some guy who never cracked the starting lineup at NJCU…

Knicks, Giants, Yankees, etc… You’re on the clock.


 
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seansherm

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RUChet said:
Idiots

the largest and best attended games filled with upsets by teams like Cape Verde and others earning their first WC points
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Didn't really read the reasoning yet, but not sure attendance was part of their criteria. Teams like Cape Verde win matches in many world cups. They weren't one of the extra additions to the tournament, they were in any year. Maybe a top 10/15 upset w their draw but not near unheard of.
 
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seansherm said:
Didn't really read the reasoning yet, but not sure attendance was part of their criteria. Teams like Cape Verde win matches in many world cups. They weren't one of the extra additions to the tournament, they were in any year. Maybe a top 10/15 upset w their draw but not near unheard of.
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Cape Verde has 500K people and played Argentina tough in a knockout game

Not sure they get in with only 32 teams though - Africa got more teams in

But counter point - the final sucked - Argentina was completely dominated and only their GK kept it from 4-0
 
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This was by far the most lucrative and watched WC in history. Both in person and tv. By any objective measure this was the most successful WC in history. Much like when America hosted in 94. It won’t be surpassed. Until we host again.
 
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Caliknight said:
This was by far the most lucrative and watched WC in history. Both in person and tv. By any objective measure this was the most successful WC in history. Much like when America hosted in 94. It won’t be surpassed. Until we host again.
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Plus semis were very good even if the final sucked. Many great knockout games
 
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