This article makes a little more sense.
U.S. soccer has a long way to go
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June 29, 2010 By Bob Ford
Inquirer Sports Columnist
Giggsy, no offense, but, this article eh makin' much sense, either. One of the problems with americans is their totally inflated sense of worth in the game of "soccer". They would do well to start looking at the collective individual talent of teams like Ghana and see how a team like that compares to a team like theirs, rather than look at Ghana's world ranking (which is where the fickle mathematics
really come in, if yuh arkse me) and use that to be so dismissive
of a team like Ghana. They fail to see that most of these African teams are underachieving in these World Cup tournaments and how their team tends to overachieve accordingly. I totally respect what the americans bring to the game: fitness, fundamentals and discipline!! They have been beating us and the rest of concacaf from pillar to post with them three things. But they fail to realize that there are other things to this sport. There are elements of creativity and artistry that are
NOT a part of the american game and as much as the article calls america "....a nation of midfielders..." that creativity and artistry tends to be most evident in midfield play. I always ask the question, for a nation of 300+ million people, has the usa ever produced (or as they see it, developed) a player the likes of Dwight Yorke or Russel Latapy? We all know the answer to that question. If they think it's a fluke that Ghana beat them in successive WC's then they don't have it in them to see what's wrong with their "soccer" and fix it.