@HTXSoccer Just shows you how talented that team was…a professional, three D1 _college players, a number of college D-2 players, etc. Pretty impressive.
@jackson_2522@THE_SKI_1@survivor_p55372@USSoccerColl You guys are doing what everyone does and using recency bias to state a position. Playing regularly in the Premier League means something. Aaronson is there and Gozo is not. I mean seriously, just because Gozo is doing that does not mean he should be on the team
I would bring Zavier Gozo over Brenden Aaronson to the World Cup. Gozo has a greater chance of giving you some magic late in a game when you need a goal, and you give one of your most promising prospects an incredible experience.
@Z9Priv_@0trmu0@SRJUDN leading scorer in Euro 2020(5)-2018 WC-5 goal contributions: let’s compare.Ronaldo:Euros & World cups- 48 games-32 goal contributions; Maradona-41 matches- 30 goal contributions. Little difference:10 of those fwas 86 World cup which was outwardly. Your stance has little weight.
@0trmu0@SRJUDN I don’t care about the trophies. In terms of individual performances (especially KOs) I’ve yet to encounter a worse performer than Cristiano. Lmk if there is one
Michigan and UConn basketball players open up about their faith on Easter weekend ahead of the NCAA championship on Monday.
“Jesus wiped my eyes clean. My whole mind is different.”
“The way I talk, or act changed. The way I treat other people. It’s more not to get, but more to serve.”
Happy Easter!
Video: @cbnsports_
@PaulSpacey@herculezg Ok, then why cant every player do that? All these players train just as much and have been playing as much as he has. Go take a player like Maldini…he had been a pro since 16, though one of the best players in history, he did not have that type of skil. A lot of it is nature
@herculezg Insane technical ability and incredible vision.
People still think we need more ‘athletic’ players here in America while Yamal is doing this based on technical quality and game IQ, both trainable.
The entire sequence from Lamin Yamal is stupid.
How he controls the ball.
How he megs the opponent.
How he even sees Fermin Lopez’s run and threads a 40yard ball with the outside of his foot.
Just stupid.
@tomsan106@Don_K_Williams So true. Basketball is pay to play and we still produce the best and deepest players around the world. It’s not pay to play, it’s everything else you just referred to above.
In the U.S., everyone screams “pay-to-play” is killing soccer development. Baloney, that’s only half the story.
We’re not producing enough elite players. The system fails the kids who pay and the ones who can’t. If both groups are failing, pay-to-play isn’t the real problem.
The real scandal? We throw kids into organized soccer before they’ve mastered basic technical skills. The world’s best develop those foundations between ages 2 and 5, at home, in the living room, and backyard. Latin families are far more likely to use a ball as a natural toy with their child, giving them that organic head start. The love for the game grows naturally.
Yet almost no one in the U.S. is talking about it. Most don’t even know what the real problem is, and that’s the biggest problem of all. You can’t fix what you don’t understand.⚽️😉
@ofcrdeonjoseph Read idiot We have a President who think he’s a F king 👑, he just make’s a phone call to Congress and there you go , or senate or supreme court because the DOJ and FBI are so complicit So in other words we have a King as what he thinks
@COLSOCStats The unfortunate thing is that if you play in Southern Texas or Louisiana you have a relatively small chance because of the lack of D1 programs in the area
Currently going through a few D1 MSOC programs class of 2026.....
We are noticing a trend of LOCAL.
Since most D1s will want to see you play in-person, and they also have limited budgets and cannot travel everywhere, most of the HS kids that ARE going D1 are typically local to that program
Some examples:
Cleveland Force ECNL > Akron
Sporting Iowa ECNL > Drake
Tennessee FC ECNL > Belmont
South Carolina Surf ECNL > Col of Charleston
FC Wisconsin ECNL > Milwaukee
Utah Avalanche ECNL > Utah Valley
NYSC MLS Next > Binghamton
Sockers MLS Next > Depaul
MI Wolves MLS Next > Detroit Mercy
Orlando City MLS Next > North Florida
Do you see a trend here? Players aren't just being "randomly discovered" by these D1s
We suspect there are proven local pipelines between club coaches at top MLS Next/ECNL clubs who have buddies coaching D1 programs .....so really more of a connections thing + that prospect being easy to evaluate in-person, as they are in your geographical region....
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@IHateSoccerPod@jasoncbrady24 Again, who has won the last 5 Olympic gold medals? Each of those guys play for a different country. We still have the best players overall. We are crazy deep across the board and if you go even younger our USA youth teams dominate the Youth world cups.
@DCunited77@jasoncbrady24 So Luka, Giannis, Joker, soon to be Wemby aren’t currently the best players in the NBA?
Who is the best player in the NBA in your mind? Don’t say LeBron.
If you’re over the age of 35 and you HATE that MLSNext HG doesn’t allow HS soccer… you’re one of two things:
1) A parent who’s kid didn’t make a MLSNext HG team
2) A HS coach whose best player that they would have had plays MLSNext instead of HS.
@IHateSoccerPod@jasoncbrady24 Sorry but the best basketball players are not from Europe. 7 of the top 10 picks in last years draft from USA and this years projected draft all top 10 from USA. Not to mention we have won the last 5 Olympic gold medals. Agree with you on baseball.
@jasoncbrady24 The best basketball players are from Europe. The best baseball player is from Japan. If the rest of the world picks up 🏈 I give it 15 years before they produce the best player in the NFL.