I was just exaggerating about the 1% but you know what I was talking about.
At work I couldn't find one person who even knew about what was going on with the US WC qualifiers. Doh tell me that football is in their culture. You think you can go to Brazil or Italy and have that happen. I am interested in hearing you ideas on footballing culture. My idea of culture is something that is inherrent, and represents a cumulation of all your history. Something that, if not the entire nation, a large proportion of the nation believes in. Basketball, Baseball and American Football are far more a part of their culture than football.
Please enlighten me with your "broad" idea of culture.
This set a spendin of money on the youth etc.. that you talking about is really throwing money and trying to force something that takes time to develop. You can't buy a culture.
PS if you so strict into numbers 1% of the US population would be a lot closer to 3 million than 2.
Freddy Adu their great Footballing Hope is a foreigner who probably lie on his birth certificate.
I look forward to your reply.
Everyone knows that soccer culture in the U.S. doesn't compare to S.America & Europe. No need to state the obvious. The point that filho was trying to make is that people are failing to see the bigger picture. U.S. being successful at soccer is good for the region, and we should encourage it and embrace it. Everyone is over-sensitive about the ad, because they referred to us as microscopic islands............and therefore are going off on all kinda tangents, and expressing ignorance about U.S. soccer as a mere cover-up for our own insecurity. The U.S. needs propoganda and hype to market their game......How esle are they gonna gain national interest in the game ??...... ?? They do the same for baseball and foobtall and basketball..and those are institutions in their culture...that is the nature of this society...you live here too Marcos, so you should know that.....I don't see what's the big deal ??
Soccer is growing as a part of the U.S. culture more than we choose to realize (another point that he was making), and the more we choose to ignore it, and refuse to embrace it, the further we're just gonna fall behind and keep wondering why. Imagine if the U.S becomes a powerhouse in football..with our close proximity to the continent, and access to their education system- imagine the number of young kids we have in U.S. Colleges that would be able to compete for spots on domestic teams here in the States.....how could that be a bad thing ?......
So forget being over-sensitive about the microscopic island comment, forget about fishing to find reasons why we should discredit the U.S. soccer hype. That serves us no good. In fact it makes us look stupid because the same U.S. has been cutting our ass at the game for as long as any of us can remember....
We should instead think big picture and study how we could get in on it, take a piece of the pie and then use it to come back and beat the same U.S................
