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Football / Re: If this doesn't motivate us.........
« on: October 16, 2017, 02:12:28 PM »Congo....
I believe that there is a misconception which insinuates that if the US best athletes switched to football, the world will have to watch out...
Last time I checked being a super human athlete didn't equate to one being superior on the football field.
Messi, Neyamar, and Ronaldo are not the biggest or most physical athletes to play this game but they are all dominant.
This is akin to the suggestion that size of a country should equate to overall dominance in a sport, in this case football.
I agree that the US have made significant inroads in the sport, but they are still light years away from being
a major player.
Not saying it is impossible, but I don't think we will see any major status changes in our life time.
We on the other hand have the 'potential' to surpass them if and only if the stakeholders/public come together.
They may not be the "biggest" athletes but what they benefit from is the fact that football/soccer is the most popular sport in their countries.
That is all that I am saying. What would happen if America becomes soccer mad and really make significant investments in football/soccer?
Right now, soccer is a 'rich kids" sport in America compared to the sport in other countries where it's really the poor and downtrodden who see it as a way to get out of poverty etc.
In America, the sports of choice to get out of poverty/inner cities are football(nfl) and Basketball. That is what I am alluding too.
The average youth involved in soccer in America is way more privileged that the average kid in Brazil for example.
Most American soccer players probably came from middle class backgrounds etc. Ronaldo's dad swept the streets for a living. Sanchez worked in a salt mine in his teens. Tonnes of Brazilian players came from the favelas.