Robert Wilcox

Mahomes could retire today a top 4 QB all-time. So uh yeah. This run crowns him over just about anyone that's ever played the game

There’s been a lot of dumb takes from Americans recently, but this is also an ignorant and frankly stupid thing to say. American Football is the most tactically intensive/complex sport, I don’t think you can even really argue otherwise. It’s like a chess match, the degree and sheer number of patterns/instructions/adjustments that are planned, practiced, accounted for on every single play for every player on the field at the highest levels is incredible, there’s not a single point during a game where that stops. Just because it involves feats of athleticism and big guys hitting each other doesn’t mean it’s unrefined. This discourse has become very silly on both sides.

If the US wanted to, it would be the best at ANY sport. To say the US doesn't have athletes to compete, we do [see chart] We just don't care about soccer as much Young boys dream of the MLB, NFL, or NBA not the Champions League

My favorite part of the World Cup is Europeans not thinking world class athletes can pick up soccer if they start at five years old. It’s all skill acquisition man, Europeans are not born better with their feet

No one show this video of an American footballer getting absolute rinsed by a Fijian to any Americans on here please.

The USMNT will be stuck at the World Cup until it adopts Germany's blueprint In 2000 Germany finished last at the Euros and decided it was time overhaul the system. They built 390 regional training bases to make sure one was within 25 km of every kid in country. They hired 1,200 full-time coaches, invested €48 million per year and mandated that every pro club build a certified youth academy or lose its license The cost to families was $0 and 14 years later, 21 of the 23 players who won the World Cup came directly from the system

NEW: The U.S. men's $16 million World Cup prize money will be split equally with the women's national team.

Frankly, I doubt it. Football is far more complex than eggball. Just because you managed to master an 11 minute turn-based game of brute force and scripted plays doesn't mean you could excel at a continuous, flowing one that demands elite touch, vision, stamina, and IQ from every single player for 90+ minutes. The same way dominating Monopoly doesn't make you a potential real estate mogul. If the US thinks it can compete, build a grassroots football culture, an open league system, and clubs capable of attracting and challenging the best youngsters. It would take decades, but it's feasible if you stop wasting energy on games no one else wants to play or watch. Good luck 🤞

I wish Americans would watch this before talking their shit about how "they would dominate soccer if their best athletes didn't play other sports." No American national team has ever come close to this level of fluidity.

Serious question: If today we banned every single male athlete in the U.S. from playing any sport beside soccer. How long would it take us to win a World Cup? 4 years? 8 might be generous.

One funny aspect of Europeans dunking on our "if our best athletes played football" takes is that they use Adama Traore as an example of a great "athlete" who isn't good at football without realizing that Traore would LOCK down the USMNTs RW role Like you're proving our point

The US will never develop better soccer talent because kids in America would rather play football, basketball, baseball, and maybe even hockey.