Americans are use to winning? As a person who lives in the states that's a false statement. Do you know when they have the world baseball tournament USA usually lose and very horrible to put it nicely. U have teams like Cuba and Japan who Americans don't watch day in and day out like in the MLB. As a result they don't see the heart, hard work, and total dedication these players from other countries put in. U know what's funny because baseball everyone knows is a sport Americans should dominate because they invented it and also the most competitive league (MLB) takes place there. But when you don't think highly of your opponents that's when you lose. Which is what happens with USA in world Baseball, its actually a very good reality check to show Americans that other countries are working hard at a sport and not taking it lightly as they will automatically win.
In terms of track the USA don't always win, you have the caribbean countries like Jamaica, Trinidad and others who always do well and upset America. That's why they have begun to take track stars from the Caribbean and giving them track scholarships to USA colleges and then those same track stars end up running for USA.
You name the sport and you will see that the USA doesn't always win other than maybe Basketball and that's only because the Euro basketball league and other leagues around the world haven't become as established as the NBA. But when they do, I am certain these other countries will start to beat the USA and give them a run for their money in Basketball. Just let them get established and you will see these other countries will start to produce kids who will be phenomenal.
In terms of the USA men NT, the reason why they don't do good is because in the states soccer or futbol as the world calls it, is looked down upon. One kids who are good at it are told to go to NFL and become a Wide Receiver,especially when they are tall. Why because the kids are told their is more money in Basketball and American Football than soccer. Also as a kid growing up in states when your a male, you don't see girls flocking your soccer games and cheer leading, so you automatically want to go to American Football and Basketball where you know you will be the man of the school if your the star in those respected sport. My thing is this their needs to be better youth soccer leagues in the USA that promotes soccer but not just that tells them the entire world plays soccer and that they can make money by going outside the USA. Until they invest in soccer USA team will be struggling to compete against the big soccer National teams like Netherlands, Germany, brazil, argentina and etc.
Also the stuff about soccer in USA is coming from someone who went to school all his life in NYC (up until college then I went upstate new york) but is a die hard football fan and seen on first hand experience how soccer is looked down upon. The sad part is that out of all the sports soccer players are usually the ones that go the longest and stay healthy after retiring. Usually the NBA and Football players usually get out of shape and have health problems because these sports require individuals to bulk up and also pick kids specifically not based on talent but height and weight in terms of how big and wide their body structure is. As suppose to soccer it doesn't matter your height and body structure but just that you can play and play well.
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