The USMNT will NEVER have a World Class player, unless…
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024
- Despite being a massive country with tremendous sports infrastructure the USMNT has never had a single World Class player, why?
Today we dive into that with Tom Byer, youth soccer expect doing amazing work in Asia.
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This guy is spot on about, the American youth system having a couple of players that are ahead of the rest, getting all the perks and meanwhile the other players do not get better at all
10 players on the field to support 1.
@@kylehicks9018 it’s also the strong hero ball mentality in the US that doesn’t work in soccer.
@@kylehicks9018 Unfortunately, the system is NOT going to change anytime soon. In America kids NEVER play soccer to have fun, even when no one is around. There is NO pick-up play with their friends, they have NO interest in doing so. I have lived for almost two decades across the street from a large playfield and except for the few times when teachers from a nearby school forced their kids play, never once did any kids in the area use any of the field for a game.
I agree with Filippo. One of the biggest issues with American coaches is the identification of talent. My son plays ODP and there’s some kids who I’m like yeah they’re “good” but they’re just way more physically developed. And there’s others that are okay but you can see they have the technical ability or touch but just aren’t quite as quick…yet. Then there’s others who seem to have it all and because they don’t play at the “best” clubs they don’t get hand selected and have to fight for a spot and then the next year don’t even go out for ODP.
My kid was one of those overlooked players. He played club soccer since he was 7. Always technically gifted (can pick out a pass 9/10, great ball retention, immaculate first touch, and great shot power and placement) but is not as big or fast as the others. Gets overlooked all the time, for the faster bigger kid. Meanwhile he’s on the bench we can’t buy a goal unless it’s from a turnover whereas when he is on the field we can keep possession and create out of them. Anyways he’s 12 now and just got fed up with this and wants to quit. It’s a shame because I truly think if he was born in an another country they could harness his skills but in America if you ain’t fast good luck. And it goes with how our youth programs work now, we beat European teams when they are teenagers but by the time they become adults we have so so athletes pretending to be footballers whereas Spain has footballer they train into athletes.
Raising the floor is philosophy that the Swedes and Finn’s take with youth hockey development. It works really well when implemented correctly.
Gonna look this up. Know nothing abt it, but sounds interesting
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There are a few big differences
1) Japan actively built their soccer culture from scratch, and they built it on the Japanese identity. We have a divided soccer community of Eurosnobs types and purists that reject all forms of domestic futbol and they discourage participation. The other silent majority is very similar to what Japan developed that's not as vocal about their participation as the detractors are about Americans being inferior who insist we should be a direct copy of England. Japan's culture isn't harmful to growing the game in Japan like the non soccer fans and the Eurosnobs here who are hostile towards it. There's too much toxicity in our culture to grow the game in an accelerated rate.
2) Japanese high school soccer is hyper competitive like our American high school football. They're playing for contracts like ours are playing for college scholarships and NIL. Our best are in private clubs, while the elite don't pay and most play for MLS academies for free, the rest of the kids have to pay to play. Few of them will ever be professional, and high school kids won't kick a ball after graduating except for fun. That means the floor level is likely lower than Japan and other emerging soccer nations.
3. The American psyche is to be the best at everything with an emphasis on individuality. We admire the best athletes, and since we will likely never be the best in global futbol, it's harder for Americans and American kids to embrace the game or latch onto certain players to model themselves after. Japan worships their soccer stars, even though very few are elite. Their players get supported. Ours are ignored or told they're not good enough. The draw to continue to play organized structured soccer past adolescence is weak.
4. We emphasize athletic strength and speed over technical skills in all sports, and definitely in soccer. The highly technical players get runover by bigger stronger athletes and told to pass the ball by their coaches. Japan values technique. If Brazilians and Argentine kids are born with a ball at their feet ours don't play unstructured ever.
American HS soccer is also hyper competitive (in some areas), and I have coached it in two different states. The big difference is that they aren't competing for scholarships because our nearest D1 team is 66% foreign. They aren't really looking to fill their rosters with local athletes, and that lack of opportunity at the next level hurts the development of players at the levels underneath, making it significantly harder for them to find their next step, even if they are good enough to take it.
1)Japan is more collectivist, so they can reach a consensus and be willing to listen to others in terms of development. Individualism and the need to be right or push an agenda hinders any constructive conversation on the direction you want a program or development to go.
2) Japanese high school soccer is competitive because it's been fostered to be like that. Since many euro snobs yelled about academies, the higher ups decided to focus just on that. As such high school soccer is pretty much dead and recreational. Any talent down there will not ever be picked up if they weren't discovered before.
3) Your third point is the chicken and egg scenario. You need a superstar to kickstart the obsession among older generation/assimilated Americans. But you need those said Americans to become the superstar to have the former happen. Very difficult since there is nothing there to push that along, doubled by the pay to play and need to find and structure soccer development.
4) Your last point is very well-known but I feel like there are nuances to that. My solution and what they allude to in the video is just raise the overall floor so the athletic guys are also technically proficient. You'll never breed out the athletic side, it's American sports culture. Work with it instead. That's not to say we shouldn't completely forget technical, non-athletic kids. They still should be developed along the way, since athleticism can come as they get older. You need to be somewhat athletic to play at the pro levels. I think it's more the current coaching that don't understand or are pressured to win youth matches by parents or club higher ups
@@theheir7264So true about the number of foreign players in college being detrimental to the long term success of the game here.
@@theheir7264 I agree that the lack of scholarships is a HUGE roadblock. The average American parent has ZERO interest in developing the next great soccer star. They are ALL focused on getting their child the best possible education to set them up for life, not a 1-in-1000 chance of a professional soccer career. Soccer, like American Football or other USA sports, is just a means to an ends, not the goal for at least 98% of all USA parents.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Except now college soccer is getting competitive with foreign competition, so even this point is mute now. IF anythign it means that we now have to do more with youth soccer
A few months ago I watched a US U15 National team out skill, out play, and out score the Japan U15 NT
Happens all the time. We have mls next programs beating out international soccer academies all the time, the issue is when they get older our players just don’t develop as much as the international does. I still we are just out muscling them when they are young but not developing skills. It’s why we look like crazy in the Olympics and can’t keep possession
My experience as a dad-coach of u10 in nor cal in 2002 was that those three good kids got pulled into travel ball leaving the other kids behind. At u12 it got so bad that our league had Gold and Silver travel teams and only four rec teams of unskilled players. Each rec team then had to play the other three over and over again.
I kept thinking that maybe my experience as a kid playing in the early ‘80s was better in some way. We had a full season with everyone in LaVerne, and then an all-star season where we played Claremont, Upland, etc.
Probably I am wrong but I can’t help thinking that a better setup would be to keep the better kids on the rec teams and select the best among them each week to travel to play neighboring leagues a la the national team. If these kids are playing year round then some part of that should be playing with their friends in their neighborhoods. This would raise the level of play of all players in the city. Kids would know that they could make the city team by working hard and being better than that kid who was selected last week who thinks he’s all that.
I think such a setup would go some way toward solving the pay to play problem as well. There is no big decision at the start of the year to commit tremendous time and money to a travel team or conversely foreclose it for a full year.
Sounds like your club emphasized winning over development so they got travel teams together to go do that. I've played a few "tournament" teams in my day. That's all they do is travel the state winning trophies. Parents love it because their kid is winning. But the coaches usually sandbag their ability to get in weaker flights so they're guaranteed to win. It's definitely teaching the kids to compete but the kids always play a very rigid system that just blows away other U10 kids. So they're winning but not learning to play creatively. I guess that's one way to coach but not the way I would.
You should find another club that's focused more on development and give that a try. You might like it more.
Good video. I’ve also seen where coaches have no passion for the game and have cone based training. This is boring for the player and they lose interest. Also as you mentioned the pay to play and lack of uniformity. Tom is saying that the entirety of the football space in Japan are all on the same page
Tom byer is awesome man>>>🔥🔥🔥 feels like I get smarter just by listening you 2 talk back and forth. Not exactly the same thing, but even helps me coach basketball and I think about these philosophies when coaching.
My experience is that coming from a public school, whenever we had to play private schools we would get crushed because of their passing ability and tactics. We had players that were on par with theirs from a technical and talent standpoint, but they could triangle around us and run the score up. From what y'all have said, maybe those private schools should have been less focused on winning and passing and instead focused on dribbling around us
Rough time developing good fullbacks. Our best two are dual nats who developed outside the U.S (Jedi/Dest).
Most Americans that play ⚽ are dual nationals...🤷
Antonee Robinson could easily be an American developed player, in fact he might have the most ‘american’ style of the whole team. Dest on the other hand is the player that is very atypical for an “American”. Good in tight spaces, technical and with alot of flair. That’s because the culture he grew up in. I wouldn’t name these two in the same sentence in this case.
*not only culture but obviously also personality
@@DremianBlades-cx5ljthat's what I say and these Americans attack me.
Always great hearing from Tom
This was a great episode
Would be nice if Tom did this work in the USA.
Maybe he just prefers to live in Japan 🤷🏼 I'm sure he has his reasons
I bet most clubs wouldn't have him because he wouldn't make them money or win them trophies. He'd just develop great players and sadly that's not how most clubs operate.
Love this video love this guest and love this topic
My coach didn’t play me at a practice he played a semi pro guy and I was coming back from being injured which we told him and then I got suspended for a game and that made me kinda lose love to play the game all the bs around club soccer is crazy
how dare u post this while im watching antonee robinson play a choppy non fluid game but still look like the best player on the field while losing 1-0
Crazy game lol aged nicely
England developed Robinson, not the American system
Fulham won because of Jedi
@@johnnyfivehole5957 absolutely
@@SmithVideoPRODUCTION and yet hes wearing a usa shirt
IMO one of the biggest issues for a long time has been Player identification/scouting. This is a very large country and we’re relying mostly on the coach’s to identify talent. The coaching isn’t the greatest either but many tend to prioritize physical ability more than the technical side. Then we completely overlook kids that can only afford to play High School but probably practicing/playing other ways.
I quit the game in the US when I was 14 due to all the drills being extremely boring and rediscovered my love the game 10 years later playing 5 a side on a small city pitch in Vienna
i think another thing is the culture. you don't see kids out on the street kicking the ball after school for fun like you do in brazil or argentina or europe. usa culture is american football and basketball. even soccer players aren't playing pick up and that's the saddest part.
Polisic is not world class. The US never has had one. Canada is closer with players like Davies, David and the rising Bombito. Curious to see what CONCACAF team dominates in 2025. The USA and Mexico continue to have home field advantage but Canada is coming together nicely...
Pulisic is obviously world class for Milan
David isn't even as good as Pulisic 🤦♀️
Coaching rec league u12 i see a lot of the travel teams beating the creativity out of kids. Everyone is coaching passing patterns getting players off the ball as quick as possible not passing principles
1000% coaching to win and not coaching to learn. It's not just the coaches though. The parents are paying for those trophies and by golly they better get them.
Theories are largely validated-verified or not easily falsified-by their experiential fruits observed in practice. That's the complementary force that unites theory and practice (or applied theory).
The biggest pieces I can add about both my playing and coaching experiences is how, as a player, coaching ended when you were seen as a “lesser” player. Even if you had some talent, coaches were not really interested in developing for the future rather than winning now. Having coaches offer little instruction, or worse, completely ignore the performance of the reserves and their development shows that the “win at all costs” attitude of American sports is so prevalent.
When I then began coaching, after going through some general training for coaching, it became obvious that the lack of knowledge at home about the sport hampered my players. Parents who only saw soccer as a socialization chance for themselves and a couple of hours of low-cost babysitting. Few had even played at a youth level, even recreationally. This may be a rural issue, but still more likely to be found than not.
The usmnt would still be shit like it always has if it wasn’t for the dual nationals almost the whole team would be gone. They need to start developing players in the usa
I'm not saying that US soccer development is perfect. Pay to play is an issue, but who will subsidize the coach's salary, travel, hotels, food, and more? The USA is so big that you can't put all your research into one area. Coaches are not going to do this for free, but MLS academies are free to play in. MLS is 30 years old but the first academy opened in 05 and MLS NP in 2020. People are saying that there should be more local recreational leagues, which I agree but who's going to pay for those leagues? What needs to improve is coaches more than anything. Everything else will follow
The public schooling system was the greatest thing to happen to American sports in general. Many Olympics athletes were able to craft their trade because of public school and college sports allowed them to concentrate on their niche sport and excel compared to their foreign competitors. I think it's wrong to for soccer development people/national team fans to throw away both because it's easily, the biggest pool to find prospects and allow those to develop for free. But most allowed youth clubs and academies to take that away. I also fully believe the public schooling system is the easiest way to introduce and have kids fall in love with futsal and enable another avenue to increase development time and raise the quality floor. As well as open up the player pool even further. There needs to be a public school --> MLS/USL academy pipeline IMO
@@Jadentheman I can only talk about my state. I have heard and talked to parents who have told me that some schools are starting to put up soccer fields to let kids play. An issue with using schools for soccer is that people must play for hours weekly to make it. Soccer development comes down more to parents and kids. Most sports are not as important to start while you are young. Soccer is one of them. Also, middle school coaches need to improve..
I think the biggest issues is that our best athletes don’t play soccer. Elite athletes in the USA are playing football, basketball, or baseball. If Mbappe grew up in the USA he would be an NFL receiver. Holland would be in the NBA. Lewandowski would be a QB. And Messi would probably be a hall of fame short stop. They all would be great if they grew up playing american sports. Same way great American athletes would be great if they grew up learning how to play soccer. People here don’t care about soccer. I really think it’s as simple as that.
MLS has a lot to answer for. What sets the J1 League apart from MLS is the purpose of the league’s creation. J1 League was created to offer a competitive competition for the development and growth of its domestic coaches and players. On top of that, the league was created as a governing body for its country’s sports clubs where they are not gatekeeping the growth of the larger population in the sport by having a closed system. MLS, on the other hand, is created as a country club style league that has a heavy emphasis on sports entertainment over being a competitive sports league and pride itself as being different from foreign soccer leagues despite the alienation it creates. The league is structured to micromanage its club franchises where it negatively affects the growth of the franchise clubs, coaches, and players. Its closed system alienates the majority of the country, which further hurts the development of the sport nationwide. For that reason, Japan is set up for long term success with its structure insuring future generations of players and coaches will only get better. Meanwhile, MLS’s structure makes it near impossible for decent future coaches to come up for the betterment of our future players with most soccer coaches being in the ‘minor league’ and collegiate levels with no hope of becoming a major league coach. All of that have a more negative effects on our players than the pay for play minor league clubs.
The kind of system you are pushing is in direct opposition to EVERY governmental unit seeking to educate kids in the USA. The USA at ALL levels is constantly pushing ever more stringent learning standards and LESS time devoted to leisure activities. Who do you think is going to fund these grand schemes of kids playing soccer when most communities cannot even fund basic education? Why do you think Pay-to-Play developed? The USA WANTS University graduates, not great soccer players. The average cost of a student in a middle school is $8,778 and for a high school student is $12,756. The amount for private schools is double that amount. Now add in the additional cost for coaching, playing field maintenance, etc. and you can see that to have a soccer academy like Europe in the USA will cost between $10,000 and $30,000 per player regardless of talent level. No state in this political climate is going to fund such academies neither is any generous billionaire. Now you can see why we have pay-to-play.
This conversation really shows how useless the coaching I got growing up was 💀
I agree 100% with love for the ball when they are young. My two boys have a differnty approach as my eldest had the skill but not the love and his brother who is 5 years younger, has a LOVE for teh ball. Both of them had a natural ability as kids but the younger worked on his skill, practiced that creativity (the fund) of the game. 10 years ago I would have just said my oldest is more athletic but as of today, the youngest who is 15 could beat my 20 year old 75% of the time .. Drills are nice but they just have to PLAY
There’s an economic bent to all of this as well when it comes to developing US players in the USA.
1. Too many migrant and foreigners play, leaving almost NO openings for American kids.
2. Like tennis, where the USA used to dominate but hasn’t for about 20 years is because of the flood of Eastern European kids. Like soccer, these sports appeal to the poorer families and hence the need for them to have their kids focus on a sport for their economic future.
3. US sports tend to prefer older and more mature players. Note that most “young” players in US sports are in the early 20s; while “young talent” in both soccer and tennis are basically high school aged kids…. And again, a lot of this is because of economics of the country and NOT necessarily of the individual families.
4. Looking at the success of the women’s soccer on the international stage, note that there aren’t that many pro sports for women other than basketball, tennis and soccer.. so obviously young girls start playing immediately and hence the plethora of US talent for women. For men, there are too many options so hence the low priority for soccer to be a main focus for most young men.
You really had to bring your racism here huh
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Whu? With the total over the past 60 years nearing 100 million or 1/3 of the total population, how can they be ignored?
Agree that coaching isn't THE problem but I do think our way of coaching is generally ineffective. Too many coaches are trying to make 7yr olds look like Man City or worried about getting the win. That causes lots of problems from not teaching the skills to emphasizing the wrong things on the weekend.
I coach U6-U9 at very skill from those who are incredibly skilled to those who literally don't know how to kick the ball let alone dribble. The only thing that changes when I coach is how difficult I can make the games to challenge their skill level and how much I expect/demand from them. But always, have to be positive, supportive, and demanding. Each session has a topic/focus (dribbling, passing, shooting, etc.). First drill isolates the skill to teach it. Then each drill gets more and more game like until we scrimmage. The emphasis throughout is always the skill for that day. As long as we play games 80% if the time the kids fall in love with the game. No lines. No long breaks. Just play, play, play. I'm not saying I've cracked the code but it sure does beat standing in line and doing footwork for hours and it's hella fun coaching kids that absolutely love to play.
Also, I encourage making mistakes. I say every touch of the ball is a mistake because the ball never does what you think it will-even in the pros. But, you get so used to the mistakes that your mind and body deal with them automatically. Plus, if you make a really cool mistake you might learn a great lesson or accidentally do something brilliant! Go make brilliant mistakes!
As for games, we play to win but winning isn't the goal, at least for me. I want to see the skills, I want to see effort, I want to see decision making. We lost 11-0 to an elite team and a dad said to me, "I can't believe you stayed so calm. I coach baseball and I'd have been losing my mind." I'm so glad that guy wasn't my coach. That loss taught us so much: what is possible, what we could look like, what effort looks like, what smart decisions look like, etc. The purpose is not to win but to learn and improve. Some days we win, some days we learn, some days we get to do both.
And finally, what I see as the biggest challenge to American soccer: American culture is too focused on winning. We don't need to care at all about winning until maybe 14-16 unless you're on an elite team. Like the men above said, focusing on winning makes you make decisions that get the wins but not necessarily get the improvement. And that kid who "sucks" this season might be your baller next season when he gets some speed or "it" just clicks. I have a kid right now that is an amazing dribbler but he's small and light and just gets bodied off the ball by the bigger kids. But boy, when he starts growing he's going to be hell on wheels. He starts every game at forward. He scores but not enough to get us wins but he learns and in another season or two the select coaches will be drooling.
Oh, and pay to play is also killing us. If I win the lotto every kid in the US is playing for free.
It is nearly impossible to get into a year-round soccer culture in the Midwest. 😢
The problem with US Soccer is that we have too many people who think we have problems rather than we're in that process
The issue is if you are a star athlete in the United States there are three sports you go into football basketball and baseball. Soccer is a distant fifth behind even hockey. The reality is that these European nations compete in one sport and one sport alone and that is soccer. Large countries like us compete in a large variety of sports and while soccer can be easy to pick up it's not as easy to pick up as basketball which is by far the poor man's game. And while soccer is less organized and costly then say American football the problem is that American football has been rooted in America for over a hundred years and is the national sport now. All the cost to entry are now supplemented by the schools themselves and a much much better youth system is in place for young men to play.
I think the biggest evidence to support this claim is the women's teams absolute dominance over the rest of the world. Well certainly in recent terms women's basketball has really taken off, thank you Caitlin Clark, throughout history there has been no major women's sports league especially in baseball and American football. Which means when the women's team and women sleep took off there was literally no competition whatsoever for the most athletic women to compete at the highest level of women's game, additionally the rest of the world also didn't have a hundred plus years of developed infrastructure to develop their own women's game. Much like every young man dreams of playing in the NFL almost every young woman dreams of playing for the US women's national team.
Well certainly there are pay to play aspects that keep some of these students and young men from competing The reality is that every sport league in America is paid to play even peewee football and AAU basketball. And just like with those sports there are scholarship opportunities and clubs will we fees for exceptional players. Moreover the biggest difference is there's not a grassroot level of play. How often do you just see young boys plan soccer in the field? That is the biggest difference there is no grassroots free play because people don't do it because they play basketball or football instead.
Basketball hoops are orders of magnitude more expensive than a soccer ball, what are you talking about
@@ninjalectualxapples to oranges my friend.
@@ninjalectualxapples to oranges my friend.
@@ninjalectualxapples to oranges my friend. A basketball and a soccer ball are roughly the same price. The cost to build and maintain a basketball court is way less expensive for a city to do than to maintain a field for soccer. That is why in almost every City you find multitudes of basketball courts spread throughout the entire city but maybe one or two real grass soccer pitches it just doesn't exist here because it costs a lot of money to maintain that grass to maintain that pitch that you play soccer on and they're just isn't a lot of spots in cities where there's wide open spaces that kids can run around and kick a soccer ball like they can shoot a basketball it takes way less space to have basketball courts and that means that you can have way more of them than a soccer pitch. You can more or less fit three or four full-size basketball courts in the same spot that you could fit one full size soccer pitch which is why it is way more accessible and way cheaper to have basketball courts than it is to have soccer firlds. Next time try comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges instead of comparing a court to a ball.
Do you really think Brazil is maintaining expensive fields all throughout their ghettos? Is that why they are so good? Give me a break
I think that if soccer was in more athletic programs in schools both high school and college the sport would improve drastically
It opens up more opportunities, the more people that can get involved the better
He's right about raising the floor. World-class players, by definition, are the anomaly. But they're usually from places with a strong pool of talent. However, if you look at the countries who regularly produce world-class players (and even those who don't), they all have one thing in common:
Football is #1.
He talks about Japan and football is about as popular as baseball there. But in the US, while the popularity is growing, how many kids and fans would *rank it above* American football, basketball, baseball, hockey, golf, etc.? (I mean, that's why they don't have the MLS on the same schedule as the major leagues in Europe… because it would get killed next to all the other pro sports.) Conversely, look at another sport in the US like basketball. The US regularly creates world-class players in basketball, but not all of them have access to elite coaching until probably university level. Yet they still succeeded in spite of it because so many of them just love the game and ball all day and night.
So to finish the title of the video, The USMNT will NEVER have a World Class player, unless… more American kids fall in love with the game and prioritize it above all the other popular sports in the US.
What the F**k is a Euro snob? Is it jealousy on your part! Don’t you like people being critical of your lousy MLS? It’s there that the problem of football development begins! MLS is a load of crap! Pro/rel is where it starts, You need to experience the agony of supporting a struggling team, to be a football fan! ….You do not understand the meaning of football culture! …All you yanks dream about is the World Cup, when it should be support for your local team before all else!….Europeans know this, and experience it!
Except in America kids NEVER play soccer to have fun, even when no one is around. There is NO pick-up play with their friends, they have NO interest in doing so. I have lived for almost two decades across the street from a large playfield and except for the few times when teachers from a nearby school forced their kids play, never once did any kids in the area use any of the field for a game. By the way, I live 1-kilometer from the border with a major inner city and about 100-meters from a bus stop. Unfortunately, in the USA there is very little interest in the sport outside of organized suburban pay-to-play leagues.
Im still new to the sport but from what I’ve seen in my short time I think USA has a couple on the roster but you need more to compete with the elite teams of the world which we don’t have yet to date.
So why hasn’t he helped his own country’s development? 🤔
After 2026 when soccer is at an all time high (in terms of popularity) in the United States, if all mls next academies become free for all than the us can make world class players easily
MLS academy’s are free bro…
@@noting7678 only the club academies (example la galaxy) are free (except for dc United), most of the mls next academies cost a lot of money
@@majestic6265 The question is always going to be who's going to subsidize the fee?
Coming into this with high expectations that it won't just be the same ol' regurgitated stuff about Pay To Play (which is a problem, without doubt, but very few people have honest answers about what to do about it since... if the parents aren't the ones to pay for decent coaching... who's going to subsidize it?) and Pro/Rel (which tbh I find to be an even lazier talking point 99% of the time it comes up since so many arguments for it feel like little more than magical thinking).
Pay-to-play is an issue but there is no real solution to this problem. We can't compare the US to Japan because Japan is smaller
What did you think?
@@TacticalManager Very well done. And certainly some things for me to think about once spring rolls around and my U8 and U10 teams that I coach get back up and running. Loved the emphasis on what we try to teach kids.
@@noting7678 Plus, as insane as specialization is in America, we can't compare to "this activity is a year round activity no matter what" that they were talking about in Japan.
@@noting7678a lot of people are regurgitating taking points already addressed for years and that was already addressed in the video and other past videos but aren’t having serious conversations on the solutions to address all the problems. And no simply saying pro/rel and death to MLS is not a solution.
People that are mentioning the fact that our best athletes almost never consider playing soccer. Why would they? Want to be a star, even if just at your high school? Well, you’re not playing soccer.
So, Lebron James, Dion Sanders, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan’s just don’t play soccer. Can you imagine a skilled Lebron at goal, Bryant and Jordan on the wings and Dion at the 9? Forget about it.
Soccer just isn’t as big as the other sports here and US soccer has chosen to follow the European club system instead of weaving the sport into the American system which uses the education system to promote their sport.
The system and moving forward with training after free/park leagues is paywalled and treated as business, couldn't move up from there because my family couldn't afford it at the time. We miss out on who knows how many prodigies and great players because of this
I used to be a fan of US Soccer until they got eliminated by a 3rd world country from WC qualifying back in 2017. Now I'm supporting Argentina despite not being Argentinian.
wtf
To go off of what he said about to fall in love with the ball first. I've played baseball my whole life in the States. I've seen kids of all ages fall asleep with their new glove or new bat. Even new cleats. Love for the game definitely starts at a young age. They fell in love with the bat and ball, glove first before they fell in love with the game itself. I learned how to swing a bat before I could run with toy bats and toy balls. South Texas is baseball central. Games will have an american football atmosphere. It starts at home and in the community for sure.
I disagree about soccer being more popular than baseball than japan. Even if soccer has a higher participation rate in recent years, baseball is still imbeeded into their culture since ww2. Articles and studies have shown Baseballl being the prefgered sport when watching. I mean their biggest amateur sporting event of every year is the koshien tournamnet as well. Which is like their march madness for basketball lovers.
My son will be world class mark my words y’all.
I hope u have 5 grand a year minimum cause that’s the cost in the us to play at academy and be willing to drive 1 hour each way 3 times a week it’s not just a commitment from the kid
@ I do have it bro and am willing to do it
@@Canev821what if he doesn't want to. You gonna force him for your pride. Great father there
@ I won’t force him and I am not a man. I just hope he enjoys the game
Can’t have it both ways!! After not qualifying for 2016 WC we all wanted our young players to be in Top 5 leagues we got that!! 2014-2024 majority of best players are overseas. Now if MLS decides to keep these players you’d say they are holding USMNT back from success! Truth is the D/A died MLS Academies took over and it just takes time to develop great players. So either these kids go over to Euro to develop and play in Top five leagues or they can stay in MLS
Do the powers of USSF not see the importance of this topic?
Orr is it just that the structure is too big to move?
Cool, it’s all common sense, suppose people need to be reminded tho.
More local Recreational leagues could help a lot… would be a small but necessary start lol
There’s a shit ton of non competitive basketball leagues, baseball leagues, softball, and the football team in your area takes every kid that tries out
FYI, in my relatively small suburb of 25,000 people there are 12 parks with FREE soccer fields - Fairlane, Kennedy, Rhein, Roxanna, Spindler, Shamrock, and about six attached to schools. The county I live in has well over 500 fields for a population of about a million folks. Unfortunately, these FREE soccer fields are NEVER used by kids to have a pick-up game even when it would be less than a five-minute walk from their home. The ONLY time they are used is for organized pay-to-play leagues.
Y’all are saying Pulisic is world class but Milan are sitting in 8th place in Serie A, if he’s world class he has to lead them to winning something
@@RomeDCarlo this aint basketball bro he can't carry the whole team
Haaland is a world-class player but Man City is in 7th
@@noting7678 Haaland also won the treble
@@jokertouchedme being the best player on an underperforming team is not good enough imo
@@RomeDCarloYou want him to be the manager as well?
Have you seen where Messi, Neymar, CR they used to play when they were 5, 6 years old kid? That's the answer, it's a cultural thing and it doesn't happen in the states.
Sadly. This method of analysis is irrelevant. 10 year olds playing rec? In the US these kids are already waaay behind. With the exception of an exceptional athlete who will also have access to great training. I don't want it to be a pay to play system and I can't afford it in a reasonable manner. I'm a trapped father with an overly talented daughter
Ok looks like after watching more of the video this is addressed in the idea that players should already have technical abilities at the age of 6.
We need to get rid of MLS
I have more experience than this Tom Byer guy
Pulisic will reach world class status at the word cupat home, if he takes us to the Semi, plus with the best Goal+Assist contribution of the tournament.
Unless they keep Pulisic at the top as a 9 or AM and let the rest of the guys play off of him.
Still hatewatching tactical manager.
Funny i bring up all these facts and your american fans attack me and see me as a delusional hater.
We had one world class player
Who?
Who?
GGG obviously 😂
Who?
Pul is very close to if not already a world class player at RW and if he continued to grow there he would be for sure be a world class player. However, Milan changing the way they are playing him has been very harmful to his playing. Milan either need to start playing him at RW again or he needs a move to a place where the will start playing him at RW again or I even think he would do better at RM with an aggressive approach than he is at CAM
World class players are world class players period. They win no matter where they go and what position they are moved to. That us not pulisic
You're mixing up WC form with being a WC player.
Chris Wood has scored a lot of goals this season. Is he a WC player?
Pulisic is a not a WC player, that is reserved for the players that would walk into almost every starting 11 in the World.
To say Pulisic and Salah are both WC is silly.
@@chuch723 I get what you are saying and that is why I was a little hesitant to say he is world class but close and need to develop in the RW more now and if he is going to start playing with playing other positions it should be RM not CAM but I think you are taking it a little to far because I mean do you think Salah would be considered a world class player if they moved him to CDM for RB for most of his games or do you think he would struggle? Or do you think Rice would be consider World Class if arsenal made him become a striker?
@@iiightcool ok fair enough just for arguments sake who is an example of someone you would say fits that role and would walk into almost any starting role and succeed on a high level.
@conorwellman8592 So many players tbh. Salah, Rodri, Vini Jr, Mbappe etc.
Just because Pulisic is not WC that doesn't mean he's a bad player by any means.
Being a WC player is a combination of your ability and form. Pulisic has the form but his ability just pales in comparison to many of those players. I wouldn't even say he's the most talented player in Milan.
Clubs would help themselves out by requesting parents deliver kids at age 6 that are already good on the ball. USSF not gonna do it. Neither is MLS. The leagues aren't that proactive, either.
That will NEVER happen! That is because the average American parent has ZERO interest in developing the next great soccer star. They are ALL focused on getting their child the best possible education to set them up for life, not a 1-in-1000 chance of a professional soccer career. Soccer, like American Football or other USA sports, is just a means to an ends, not the goal for at least 98% of all USA parents.
@gregorybiestek3431 That may be, because the average parent knows nothing about the game. But once they (and their kids) have been through the system they will understand it is not constructed to assist their kid, only to milk the parents. US parents have to get smarter and demand more from these clubs. But in the mean time, the kids should learn to love the ball starting early. Nobody else will do it for them.
@@r2dad282 Unless their parents are already familiar with and like the sport, no American parent is going let them "love the ball" as you put it. Day care situations do NOT allow such activities, community rec programs do not start until age 5, & they don't teach technique, and almost EVERY parent is bombarded constantly on how to improve academics & have kids try a VARIETY of athletics. USA parents DO NOT CARE about single sport development.
@@gregorybiestek3431low quality post. Parents are trying to set their kids up what is traditionally the most likely path to success. I can understand not everyone taking or even afford ding to gamble. Don’t denigrate them for it.
@@Jadentheman Too bad. Unless their parents are already familiar with and like the sport, very few American parents is going let them "love the ball" as is posted. Day care situations do NOT have such activities, community rec programs do not start until age 5, & they don't teach technique, and almost EVERY parent is bombarded constantly on how to improve academics & have kids try a VARIETY of athletics. USA parents DO NOT CARE about single sport development.
Bottom line..no promotion relegation.
Try it and watch the sport in the USA be destroyed. The reason? There is either very LITTLE or NO community support for ANY relegated team. They simply fold and disappear. No professional sports league in the USA is built on community support, not even the NFL. All of them depend on (1) billionaires, & (2) media money. neither of those two continue to support a relegated team, so the team just cease to exist.
Let's Go My Beautiful USA!!!🥰😍🤗❤🤍💙💯
Christian Pulisic is a World Class Player for me Dear Filippo.🥰😍🤗❤🤍💙💯
Jedi is the best LB in the PREM. He is also World class