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Outta Pocket with RGIII
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Covering all things OUTTA POCKET in sports, culture, and more - with @RGIII & @Gretegiii
Katılım Ağustos 2023
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Soccer is booming in the United States and World Cup viewership shows there is MASSIVE interest, but it will never be the priority and always play 5th fiddle to the Big 4 sports in America unless Americans fundamentally change their approach to youth sports.
American Soccer is behind the rest of the world for 3 reasons:
1. Cultural Sporting DNA
In the USA, Soccer competes in a crowded field of Football, Basketball, Baseball and Hockey instead of dominating like abroad.
Europe and the rest of the world built soccer through community clubs, local pride and it being their default sport. They are born with a soccer ball on their feet.
2. Pay-to-Play Barrier
In the USA most youth are priced out of playing because the cost to be on the team is too expensive. Currently there is a 14% decline in youth soccer participation between ages 6 to 12. Europe and the rest of world’s accessible club model keeps more kids in the game longer.
3. Less participation in the sport
An all time high 16.8 million youth played outdoor soccer in the USA in 2025, but per capita the USA is far behind other European countries like Belgium which has a 3x higher rate of participation for its population size.
For American soccer to catch up, it has to change its sporting culture focus to development instead of making money and lower the cost barrier for participation through state and government funded clubs over the next 20 years.
Development needs to be the priority, not maximizing how much money can be made off the athlete and their parents.
Instead of focusing on the old statement of “if our best athletes played”, focus on making the best athletes want to keep playing and the ones who do play the beautiful game better at it.
Then and only then can we find our Erling Haaland, Lamine Yamal, Messi, Ronaldo or Jude Bellingham.
We have to build the structure for them to develop in.
#FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Football #Soccer #RG3 #OuttaPocket #USA
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Lamar Jackson is not the 69th best player in the NFL. BURN THIS LIST TO THE GROUND.
NFL@NFL
No. 69 on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2026… @ravens QB Lamar Jackson! @NFLFilms
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When your pool wrestling video gets the attention of Seth Rollins 😂
#WWE #SethRollins #RG3 #Wrestling #OuttaPocket
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