@KlezmerRouge @CoachPapaJohn A handful of idiots said that. Not us lot.
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@CoachPapaJohn Europeans are the ones who've been pointing out the "skill acquisition" needs to happen early in life because you lot keep proposing getting college gridiron players to retrain
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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
Toke Theilade@TokeTheilade
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.
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@CoachPapaJohn IF THEY START AT 5 YES.
But you don't have that culture.
You just don't.
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@trashinho7 @anonymous1v6b @TheRobBrownShow Who didn't think of that? Of course great athletes are likely to be good at a sport if dedicated training in it from youth. Not everyone, of course, but good genetics, agility, proprioception, and mental dedication is not limited to a single sport.
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@anonymous1v6b @TheRobBrownShow It’s funny how they never think of their idea backwards. Like if every soccer player trained for nfl or nba from a young age, there wouldn’t be any Americans left in their leagues lol.
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I absolutely accept that other places are better than us. No problem.
What I don't accept is that we can't join them in the powerscaling.
And it's not "get LeBron," it's "get the really smart slot wide receiver that plays third string but would be a wizard on the pitch."
Jeffrey Boadi@jeffreyboadi_
Here’s what I’ve realised about the American athlete discourse in the World Cup: A lot of people who weren’t around for USA ‘94 have seen in the last few weeks that football is by far and away the biggest and best sport in the world - nothing comes close. But the US being really average at it compared to European nations upsets them, so it’s been a case of doing mental gymnastics to try and prove that they could be elite if the Russell Westbrooks and LeBron James’ of this world played from a young age. It just doesn’t work like that - athleticism only gets you so far when a highly technical sport like football is played in the brain first. Some of the best players in the history of the game don’t even look remotely athletic - yet you can’t get near them. My American friends: I promise you it’s okay that people from other parts of the world are better than you at something 😬
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@Ephsquare @Hhh1687722 Obviously. Only idiots are saying 100% of NBA players would be football pros. But, many of them have the agility and proprioception to learn the skills, if started young with good coaching. And, what goes into IQs of each sport, but many would learn it in those circumstances.
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@oldbirchtree @Hhh1687722 They'd have to have started playing organized football from at least 6 or 7, having all the footwork, skill and coordination. Even with all of that only a miniscule percentage will become professionals, football IQ and technique still trumps physicalitym
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If you showed them Messi and Adama Traore side by side and asked which was the best player the sport has ever seen they’d all pick Traore
Josh Wiesel@Jwiesel13
Christian Pulisic is a prime example of the United States not having its best athletes playing soccer There’s just no way there aren’t guys in the NBA & NFL who wouldn’t be better than him if they would’ve started playing soccer at a young age He’s a wimpy small athlete
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Can the American mind handle the fact that the greatest football team of players under 5"7 is probably better than the greatest football team of players over 6"3?
Josh Wiesel@Jwiesel13
Christian Pulisic is a prime example of the United States not having its best athletes playing soccer There’s just no way there aren’t guys in the NBA & NFL who wouldn’t be better than him if they would’ve started playing soccer at a young age He’s a wimpy small athlete
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@Ephsquare @Hhh1687722 Are you claiming that NBA players of a suitable CB build would not be nimble if they were in an English football academy from their youth?
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@Hhh1687722 Even those guys at those heights are still far more nimble and coordinated than the average NBA/NFL of similar stature.
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@calvinbarr15 @TheRealRedShed The top club teams dont let their kids play high school soccer. Top club season goes the whole school year, and 3 months of school soccer can be a step backwards in development due to poor coaching. That's what you'd have to solve.
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@TheRealRedShed If you play basketball, football, baseball, or track playing for your local high school team is good enough to get you to the next level and that allows kids from a spectrum of financial backgrounds to make it. Improving high school soccer needs to be a top priority in the US.
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European academies scout kids at 6 years old. They don’t have HS sports, just elite academies.
Having a 3rd string DT play soccer in high school isn’t going to fix US Soccer.
Casuals, I swear.
Bart Winkler@BartWinklerShow
Boomers asking each other if this is the best team we can field in a country of 350 million people after making their kid be the third string defensive tackle in high school rather than play soccer
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@murphy10465 @SprtBookReviews Yeah $200+ for uniforms for us. Thankfully they last 2 years.
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Why can't the USA have a dominant soccer team? Look how much it costs to play under 9 soccer for my local team. My parents didn't pay even ten percent of this in total for 8 years of me playing as a kid in Ireland.
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@PuckFupett69 @AZinCLE Not at my office as it will cost against my salary haha!
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Just buy the $150 Brother laser printer. Is it repairable? Who knows? I've had it for 10 years and it hasn't broken.
CR1337@CR1337
We all know what the three biggest problems with common printers are: 1) Ink rip-offs 2) Planned obsolescence 2) Unrepairable hardware Today I stumbled upon 'OpenPrinter', a fully repairable, open-source inkjet that uses cheap refillable HP cartridges (no DRM), prints sheets or rolls with auto-cutter, Raspberry Pi powered + no drivers needed on any OS. If I ever get a printer again, this will be the one:
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@nickverlaney @IowaBlues Yeah, his leg bounces up off the ball. Im not sure he could do much about it
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Another terrible VAR intervention. He doesn’t call anything on the field, and then VAR intervention. Quansah rolls over the ball with his leg - that’s why it’s high. Unfortunate but not a red for me.
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@oldbirchtree @willprinse @theoldzealand Of the red not being overturned but being 'suspended' for a year. To me it should've been overturned however if it wasn't to be overturned they shouldn't have suspended it for a year for it to not affect any world cup games either this world cup or world cup qualifying
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@oldbirchtree @theoldzealand Causal is an understatement if you think that’s a red, stick to baseball buddy
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@willprinse @theoldzealand How’s it different? Dangerous play, no? As a “casual” (lol), I’ve been told these guys should have complete control of their bodies. There’s no reason he should be kicking someone in the face.
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@Drumanji It's a red card, even i, not that familiar as others with Football can see that.
It's like a horse collar tackle in the NFL, If there was an intent or not does not matter.
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Dear US-Americans, should the USMNT win against Belgium, be sure that the whole world knows, that they did so by cheating, by corruption and dishonest, no matter if Balogun plays or not.
It'll hurt the image of the US more, then everything that deranged Orange did so far.
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@Itsjustme881241 @wbpandora92 @Iamjusthere4be1 @JackDunc1 If a player slide tackled another and the tackled player stomped on the challenging player’s ankle as he was running, it would be a red card?
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@wbpandora92 @Iamjusthere4be1 @JackDunc1 The entire story doesn’t matter. Because it doesn’t matter if he stood on the ankle by accident or not. Which he clearly did. I assume there was no bad intention, but to protect players a red card must always be given for these kind of offenses. Please see the rule I referred to.
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Let's be really clear here, Belgium are not fussed about the player himself - they are fussed about the corruption and precedent set. They are willing to take a stand for the integrity of the sport, and that should be respected.
FIFA and the US should not get away with this.
Daniel Storey@danielstorey85
Belgian FA to consider their options regarding the decision to scratch Balogun's suspension. And rightly so. Our expectations were low and fair play, FIFA have gone under them with ease.
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