Alexi Lalas reveals his emotions after the USMNT failed to qualify for the World Cup | THE HERD
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Alexi Lalas reveals his emotions after the USMNT failed to qualify for the World Cup | THE HERD
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Does the USMNT need to clean house?
The Herd with Colin Cowherd most definitely, and I agree with you Colin: I'd keep the seven you listed and get rid of everyone else. We've held onto the old vanguard for far too long, and are squandering our youth's development.
Young US Players should not go to college (or MLS), they must go to Europe.
There is real competition and the real stages of career.
Most DON'T go to college because many Division I schools don't have a men's soccer program because of NCAA rules to require equal number of sports programs for women and men...
Marek Lame To make it in Europe its totally other level. I am from Germany and Most of the German players in the highest german league are under professionel conditions since they where 14 years old or even younger. They have atleast 2 times a day training under professionel Coaches(fulltime Job)and matches against highest quality teams at their age every weekend.German Clubs Spend millions of Dollars every year to find and train them.
The Herd with Colin Cowherd Absolutely clean house. NOW. I want to thank Alexi Lalas for speaking the truth and calling out this USMNT for being soft. Never in my lifetime would I witness such a putrefying failure as missing out on a World Cup because we can't beat or even draw against the bottom of the hexagonal totem pole in T&T. Never would I think that match was the TNT that would eradicate our World Cup dreams. Now, granted, we shouldn't have been in this spot in the first place, but how can they explain not taking care of business when all the chips are in?? Trinidad and Tobago were playing for one thing...PRIDE. And they showed that throughout the match. We didn't. I care not that Panama got lucky on the 'phantom goal'. I care not that Mexico couldn't bail us out by at least drawing with Honduras. We had the easiest match in the hexagonal and we CHOKED. End of story. Clean house right now. Start with Bruce Arena and Sunil Gulati, then trickle down to the players. Then look at what the rest of the world is doing and how they're able to produce a great or decent team. Our way ain't working; time to fix that, too.
The biggest problem with American soccer? Children have to pay to play. It's a sport of the privileged here. The kids from low income backgrounds get overlooked for kids that have the money to play travel ball.
In most western european youth teams you have to pay too. Only if you are really talented and get a spot in a pro academy you are not gonna pay.
I'm talking if you want to play in a team. In every youth team in europe you have to pay for the player license and equipment and so on...if you have enough talent for a big academy then they have money and you don't have to pay.
Claudio Dio I wish I lived there lol I live in the US but usually clubs I join I need too pay like $200 or $300 even if I’m that good I still need to pay I’m a team player you can say I can play any position you need me and not trying to sounds like a cocky guy but I’ve had Coaches tell me they love how I play they say I’m a great player . Clubs offer me to join but they tend to ask for money I can’t give that’s the thing that’s sucks but I still give it all .i wanna play professional football or soccer but I know it won’t be easy given .so I give it my all yah get me
you pay like 120 dollars a year in europe
Here in argentina money won't get you far, you either have it or you don't. Only talent can make you a professional. It has nothing to do with money it's cultural, USA just doesn't have what it needs to play the sport.
The problem is all these soccer leagues for kids that cost 1000$ per season. Many underprivileged kids can't go and are left behind. Look at Brazil almost all of their players come from very poor backgrounds Neymar, Ronaldhino, Pele etc
Ali A only 4 white players in the team. In brazil
All I'm saying is that the size pool of talent is small in the US
if you're physically talented, you're way better off going in to basketball, football, or even athletics. way more money, arguably easier route.
Phantom - I have to agree. With the money currently given out in the NBA, why would American kids play soccer? Even a backup point guard in the NBA makes more money than world class football players.
Germany, Spain, Argentina? They are basically all white teams. Your skin color has nothing to do with your athletic ability. Soccer is not just about pure athletic ability, that is what makes it so awesome. Technical skills and tactical thinking also come into play. Most of Brazil's team is mixed too, so you can't say there are no white people on the team when most of the team has white blood in them.
In the US you have to be rich to play soccer at an elite youth level. This is the only place in the world that's like this.
Vidal Gutierrez it's like $5,000 or more for summer youth camp soccer, in other country's they free
I'm sure there's a lot of talent out there, especially from Latin American that love this sport. What a waste of talent.
FuFill Your ViBes in other country's they recruit from every corner of the country and in the US they only mainly look at colleges
Freddy yup!!
So, the US men’s will always be second place or worse.
We lack any sense in US soccer media. Anyone in the US soccer media who believes MLS is competitive and a top league should retire now
itsStawny lmaoo! When i hear MLS, i think its some lower tier league where noobs play
MLS is where once top talent comes to when they're about to retire.
MLS = Football Retirement Home
While I understand the skepticism and the labeling of MLS as a retirement league, I have to say the league’s landscape is slowly shifting towards bringing young and promising talent from South America and even Europe while also attempting to improve the development of players domestically. I don’t think that MLS will ever be considered a top tier league world wide but I do believe it holds the potential of being the top league in the world outside of Europe.
I doubt it, the Chinese League will be within a decade
Soccer in USA is seen as a sport..
Soccer in other countries like Brazil or Germany..is seen as a culture..a religion..that's the difference
Daniel Ceballos come to California my boy
@@PeterPan012 please....
Gustavo hernandez I’m in Cali. Los Angeles. My high school had big crowds for Football basketball and even baseball and hockey. No one watched soccer. Most of the kids didn’t even know if we had a soccer team.
How’s life at arsenal
The massage of what you are saying is right although the terminology is wrong, as the World Name for The World Game is FOOTBALL.
Pathetic that a nation of 300 million can't beat a country the size of Toledo.
Eero Haapala - Soccer is the fifth most popular sport here. Soccer is probably number 1 in Trinidad 🇹🇹
Jimmy Bonez It is but we also love our Athletics,Cricket, Cycling etc.
If Trinidad and Tobago beat India in soccer, would you be saying that it's pathetic that a country with a billion people loss to one with just over a million or would you say that soccer in Trinidad is more popular that it is in India (who never even made the World Cup)?
Eero Haapala They should be better no matter what
Jimmy Bonez That was there B team too lol
I turned off my tv after the game and literally stared at a blank screen for an hour....
You need a drink.
😂🤣😂😂
get a drink and go to bed.
It must be horrible for Alexi Lalas to feel frustrated and live in a country that does not give importance to the beautiful game
he's not the only one i can promise you that
We have a much better version it's called hockey
Alejandro Solís he could easily move
My reaction when seeing "US fails to qualify for the World Cup" was laughing out loud...literally. I dislike soccer because of the bandwagon fans that jump on board every 4 years in this country
That's the craziest thing about the national team is there any real pressure here? Think about Netherlands or chile, no one cares here but if there was real pressure we are 10 years behind actually being able to deal with it
To everyone who's upset about USMNT not qualifying, just remember that the Chicago Fire still have a chance to win the World Cup.
"Club world cup" Bastian was pissing his pants😂😂😂😂😂
Ángel Cabrera definitely you suck in geography, go and goggle the America continent and you will find all those countries that you mention and more, surprise!!!
Alexi has so much passion and love for US soccer and knowledge and experience of the game. Honestly he'd be my first pick to coach the National team. Talk about a guy who could come in and change a culture.
People say no one watches soccer yet the uefa champions league and World Cup get more ratings than the NBA,NHL,and NFL
Falls 03 and EPL
Falls 03 those are world ratings not local us ratings.
Falls 03 no it doesn't the NFL almost breaks the record every Super Bowl lmao and either way they aren't talking about internationally
Super Bowl = 150 million
World Cup Final = Over 1 billion viewers (over 3.5 billion unique viewers throughout the tournament, a very high figure based on world TV access)
AJ that's terrible to measure it like that if that's the way you measure the World Cup measure the whole nfl season matter of fact 4 of them to be in line the World Cup it murders them in ratings don't kid yourself Americans love NFL
The problem not being addressed is how terrible the US youth soccer system is. In the euro and South American counties, kids are scouted from the school yard and there's academies every where that have trials. Here in the states you have to pay thousands of dollars and on top of that you need to know someone. I can't even count the number of opportunities that I lost just because I came from a low income home.
Fabian Sanchez Reyes speak on it brother same thing for me so many lost opportunities because rich kids always end up making the team while good players are sent out I remember when I got kicked off a team cause "I wasn't good enough" knowing damn well it was because I come from a low incoming family I'm happy they didn't make the world cup now they can see what they are doing wrong
those academies are full of pedovores ...
I completely agree. So much talent in our less privilege areas. Look at France their talent pool comes from the Ghettos of Paris, France. Most countries do the same. Look at Brazil. USA is the only one that only wants rich kids
Even if it wasn’t pay for play, we would still suck, people who think we suck cause the pay system is in affect are idiots, people just don’t love the sport in America in general, kids who like the sport don’t like it anywhere near as much as people in Europe, where kids dribble down the street almost everywhere you look, you don’t see that in America and kids in America don’t gather randomly and make games with eachother in the street and neighborhoods, some Americas say they love the sport but their threshold for love of the game is low, people who truly love it are over in Europe and South America
In the Land of Opportunity, the one opportunity I never had, was being able to play Soccer
Altidore and goal scoring don't belong in the same sentence
Vaital V He's great on Toronto FC but i hear from people that know more about soccer than i do tell me it's because he plays with Bradley and Giovinco...is this true? Is he overrated?
Ye guess people didn't watch that bum at Sunderland
Quentin 33 altidore isn’t a goal scorer. I wouldn’t say he’s overrated because like I said, he doesn’t score that much relative to really good strikers but he’s more then just about goals. He’s great at holding the ball up.
Marcos Garcia Ok thanks. Is Michael Bradley good?
Quentin 33 he’s alright, for mls standards he’s good, but when he was in Roma he was eh. So he’s an ok player.
"Panama last night beat Honduras or Mexico" when Mexico played Honduras 🤦🏽♂️
Juju haha he answered "yeah"
Lol. Yeah, terrible on Lalas not correcting that.
haha so much for knowing more than you think about soccer
Dragga tbh I think he just didn't think it was worth it in a short minute segment
Neither hahaHaha thats us soccer hahaha
This is a huge loss for me, I became a fan during the 2014 World Cup at age 12. We are going to lose so many future generations of players and fans in these next five years.
Sam Cottington well it's not necessarily a bad thing pulisic will be 22 at the next wc he can lead u lot to the next one
Don't sleep on t&T😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Pulisic should of been there
So, have we?
Only one thing came to my mind once i head about the result, the Kurt Angle theme song "You suck" lol
Rattan Mutti 😂😂😂 you should put a video together of them walking off the field after the loss and all you hear are the trumpets sounding
Rattan Mutti At least in Kurt Angle's case, it's a sign of respect. For this USMNT, it's the truth. Worst team ever assembled in...probably ever.
Worse than the 1985 CONCACAF Championship team? They were pretty bad
As a Portuguese guy, i really think if the US gave more attention to developing young players..no doubt would be a force in a few years! just like China.
Just too many people in these countrys, the thing is football is not even close to the main Sport
Diogo Ferreira actually football is the most played junior sport in the country. Retention through high school is where the US struggles
Diogo Ferreira the one true football. ROUND BALL
Diogo Ferreira A big problem for youth development in the US is the fact that much of it is what's called "pay to play". Elite travel teams in this country can cost between $1000 and $3000 a year just for kids to participate. This prices out working and lower middle class families.
There is something more after highschool. The players above 18 must compete with senior pro players. It's sad but most of youth players cannot be pros. ASAP people with heart and ethics must get to the real competition.
Julian Green that's crazy definitely something the US should sort out, most of the greatest players of all time have came out of poverty-stricken or low class families.
That's true.. because when I was in my country, I would walk down the streets and everyone was playing Futbol, when I came here everyone was playing basketball/football/baseball.. No wonder why USA is not that good at soccer right now
My friend is insane at football he will save us soccer
us doesnt take soccer seriously. around the world, these world class players start playing soccer at a very young age and they take it very seriously. they are recruited and start out in academies as youngsters. they play soccer and that is the only thing they play. kids in the us play soccer sporadically, seasonally, they dont take it as seriously, in addition, they play other sports as well such as baseball, basketball, football, etc.
That's no excuse
How is that not an excuse? Having good players is the #1 cause of success in sports and the US doesn't have many, mostly because all the best athletes in the US play American football or they play basketball. Next to none of them play soccer.
The U.S. thought they could walk into T&T and win because let's face it T&T isn't a good team. Honduras and Panama played with a lot of emotion yesterday and all this ghost goal stuff doesn't matter because the U.S. had one objective and that was either win or draw. That's it they don't have to wait for other results they just have to get theirs.
Harry Garris Because US has made every World Cup since 1990 and soccer was less popular back then than it is now. The MLS is at its best currently and there are more players in top divisions in Europe than at any other time. There's no excuse now when you compare it to the past 30 years back when America actually had an excuse to miss the World Cup like when Alexi Lalas was playing and there was no MLS.
You're so ignorant. This isn't 1994.
Im chilean and last night my heart was broken as I saw my team failing to reach the World Cup in the Conmebol quialifiers; the hardest of all qualifiers. A true 2 yr long nightmare for all teams involved, even Argentina.
Futbol is like loving the wrong person. When you win you feel so happy, everything is great. Everything feels great and when something is wrong you remember your team winning and immediately feel better. But when defeat happens sadness prevails. And one feels so bad. It hurts so much...
They just shows how difficult Conmebol really is
Yes. There is actually a recent study mixing ratings, games played, analysis of players, etc and Conmebol was by far the hardest of all Federations. If you replace any of the qualified Concacaf teams with a random Conmebol team (not even a qualified one, a random one), that Concacaf team would most likely not qualify.
Conmebol is the 2nd hardest of WC qualifiers. If you cant finish ahead of awful Peru, you dont deserve to be in the World Cup.
Tundra Peru awful? Lol you must not watch a lot of soccer, they're 12 in the current FIFA world rankings, just tied Colombia and Argentina in La bombonera. And anytime that finished in the top 5 of CONMEBOL is a top tier team buddy
"Top tier teams" are likes of Brazil, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium etc. Top 5 of Conmebol is a team that barely qualified, Peru team that has no great players, no "top tier" players, not even close. NONE. If you honestly believe Peru is on the same level as team above, then good luck to you. I dont know what else to say. Are you from Peru?
Using FIFA world rankings or 5th spot in Conmebol is a weak argument.
Good job. This is the first time I've heard an American address the fact that the USMNT gets a free pass from the US media. The fact of the matter is that we are a mediocre football nation, yet every time we go to a world cup some people act like we should win it.
I love soccer, I watch MLS and premier league, and I love watching the USMNT. Born and raised in the United States, to American parents.
Been following every wc since a little kid in 1982 til now...We missed it for 2018... missing cohesion and hearts , true sadness
at least A.Lalas admits that the u.s. is arrogant
Ali A W
Damn i knew Arena shouldve called up Freddy Adu 😤
MF Ness burn
I have hear two lies about the USA in soccer. One: That the USA will better than mexico and everyone in concacaf. Second: That freddy adu, will be the next Pele in soccer. I don't know which hamburger place he is in right now thats a lie. Where is Freddy Adu??
whatever happened to freddy adu??
Ryan G Coach brings him in and gets fired than the team gets rid of Freddy. That's happen on a lot of occasions. He wears a heavy burden and can't be another player. If the team fails with a hard cap especially with a hard cap for domestic players. At some point it had to get to him. He's expected to humble and have no life. God forbid he parties. He's not well liked fairly or unfairly. I see Jordan Morris get paid millions and be guaranteed his playing role despite not being better than Oalex Anderson before his knee injury. But Adu gets ostracized because of this savior label that leaves a sour taste.
With that kind of passion, he could be the perfect person to manage the team going forward into qualifying for Qatar 2022.
It's 2019, I still watch videos about the disaster. I can't believe we missed the WC. I've suffered some loses as a sports fan that cut deep, but none has hurt as long as this one has.
The u.s is back in the World Cup
Finally talking about football
Soccer guy
Charlie Jackson the trash 1
Soccer
Charlie Jackson Soccer ⚽️ 🥅
Charlie Jackson Blue is the colour
Panama got absolutely hammered at the World Cup, imagine how badly the US team would’ve done.
True, but Panama making it to the World Cup alone is achievement enough, especially if it's their first time, and many of their players are retiring. It's even sweeter when they managed to score their first ever goal in thr World Cup, against England no less.
With the way that the USMNT played during the qualifications, I'd imagine they would've fared like New Zealand back in South Africa 2010 - undefeated, but were knocked out of the group stage nontheless.
Amen and yes, from top to bottom!
Soccer will go on! Can't wait to play tomorrow
😂😂😂 Americans act like they don’t care yet they’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars in player development.
A lot of that money is being spent by families who want _their_ kids to play soccer because they feel it's safer than the "other" football but don't necessarily care about the men's national team or the MLS.
Aegon Targaryen ratings don't lie
Aegon Targaryen that’s nothing compared to the billions we put into other sports...
Aegon Targaryen that isnt alot of money being spent. The top 25 college football teams alone spend hundreds of millions of dollars. If people cared about soccer mls players would be getting paid more than only 3 million. Nba bench players get paid more than the stars mls players.
but compared to other sports, thats like nothing
Well said Alexi!!! You speak to the heart of the problem.
People keep saying Trinidad and Tobago is the worst team.
If you lose to them then you’re the worst team.
Yes US, you are the worst team in concacaf
america the worst of the worst
we arent the worse
KingShadow11
The US team lost to Trinidad and Tobago’s B team.
Yes, as of now, we are the worst team.
That would be Saint Kitts and Nevis
KingShadow11 .. Yes .. You are the worst
The main issue is at a collegiate level it is not as put into focus as other sports such as basketball.
because no one really cares and it doesnt bring money in.
The L3g3ndary K because we don’t give a rip about soccer lol
By the time players reach college age it’s too late. Players like Messi, Ronaldo etc start training with pro clubs at 13 or 14.
Honestly college is the problem. American players make it their goal to play college while any good 18 year old player in another country would be playing pro at that point. Look at Marcus Rashford. He's 19 and playing for Manchester United and training with Zlatan, Lukaku, Pogba, etc. every single day. That's how you get better. College football (soccer) just hinders development
nlorant99 That's okay, but billion and billions people disagree with You man.
I dreamed with something like this in USA. I'm form Central America and US citizen with love for this sport. Let's promote Soccer(Football) for four seasons of the year under rain and snow as the rest of the world. This sport will lower the drug and depression in our kids. Thanks to Alexi Lalas the best in my opinion because he feels the culture of this sport. Latin America respect this guy because is one of the few Americans that got the point. I think the real problem is Nationalism and hate for soccer, we won't stop be Americans because of soccer however, don't tell an Argentinian Grandma that US sports are better that soccer because she will beat you down . It may be a vehicle to lower the cultural hate that we have now. Thank you.
Michael Bradley was the captain of this team. I think the team took on his personality. What I saw on the field was no hear, no passion and no urgency to get the job done. Lot of soul searching to go on now and then look at the plan to revamp and actually find the talent that is out there in youth soccer - not just the ones that you groom in the U.S. system.
Absolutely! As a first-generation Kashubian Polish-American,soccer has resonated with me while growing up and being reminded of the '74,and '82 Polish National Team Third Place finishers.The likes of Boniek and Lewandowski became branded on my conscience! lol
Excellent analysis!
My Soca Warriors finally got revenge for what the US did to us in 1989. Now you know how we felt back then as a nation. lmao
Not really cause yall didnt qualify
felt like the sky was falling literally last night , that was painful no matter how you look at it .
Wow! That was a really good discussion. Thanks Colin! US Soccer needs new leadership and that new leadership needs to completely take apart and look at every single aspect of the game in this country.
Sou brasileiro e estava torcendo muito pro Estados Unidos classificar-se para a copa do Mundo 2018. Fiquei muito triste pois torço muito para esse país desenvolver-se e crescer no Esporte Rei(Futebol). Aqui no Brasil o esporte número um é o Vôlei de feminino e masculino. O futebol é nossa religião. Uma paixão sem limites! vamos USA. Força e sucesso em um breve futuro! Alexis Lalas foi um dos meus jogadores favoritos na defesa no passado. Desculpem meu pobre inglês.
(translate). I'm Brazilian and I was very much hoping the United States would qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. I was very sad because I'm very keen for this country to develop and grow in king sport (Soccer). Here in Brazil the number one sport is the women's and men's volleyball. Football is our religion. A passion without limits! Let's go to the usa Strength and success in a short future! Alexis Lalas was one of my favorite defense players in the past. Sorry for my poor English.
Wow. Thank god for the USWNT and being able to get the job done.. not to mention 4 times
Thank god you are not part of UEFA, which makes the qualification more difficult... In that case you would be disapointed more often. Just ask the dutch how they feel. One of the best football nations out of the world cup.
EDIT: Or Conmebol (south america) also. Some users reminded me, that it can be considered even more difficult and I agree with that.
luka 40090 use to be one of the best, long before there is a new Robben. Depay is questionable
The Conmebol is even more difficult.
luka 40090 south america is more harder
It's not 1998 anymore. Holland are not one of the best nations today.
I agree. For me it was really sad, that they finished 6th.
I'm a Reggae Boyz fan but I was really disappointed that the USMNT didn't make the WC they aren't the best but they always go and represent our region well and this is the most talented team they've had in years.
Watching this clip now to motivate me for Saturdays rd of 16 game against the Dutch and I still dont understand how that team in 2017 lost to a horrible T&T team.
The USMNT would've been bounced out of the group stages in a European soil FIFA World Cup again had they qualified for Russia 2018.
@@joesakic91 Oh i totally agree, that team was cooked (too old) and did not have the young players in the pipeline. Yes, it would have been VERY ugly.
The US have to learn from teams like Iceland and Peru who barely have any players who play in the best leagues go on and are either in the World Cup or are going to the playoffs to enter the World Cup. They need to develop the young talent and start rejuvenating the team
Peru is not to good and not as good as USA, Peru have not been in WC in 30 years and the USMNT already beat Peru in Sep 2016.
Tyler Brown But Peru made it to a playoff spot in CONMEBOL qualifying, they work great as a collective team, even though they don’t have their players playing in the best leagues in the world.
lmao how a disqualify team from CONCACAF can be even compared to a team from CONMEBOL... we play our own world cup to get an spot in CONMEBOL, and our players loves our selection tshirt, they play together and with passion. They cry if they win and even more if they lose.
US makes the youth players pay way way to much money to be on a team, this is a problem because now you are exclusing the kids that actually have talent and want to play. Other countries dont have the youth players pay any money making it so that any kid that comes from a poor family can make it out, this also makes him more passionate about what he is doing, something the US lacks
Ever since Landon didn't play in the World Cup, the US team has been going down.
Julien Fraser Donovan didn't play in 2014 and we managed to get out of a group with Germany and Portugal. It was after that we took that for granted and didn't care to improve and now it's paying back in harsh numbers.
Ranel Gallardo in 2014 Donovan sucked
THANK YOU!! THIS is why I've been saying the men could learn something from the women, because of everything he just said at the end there. Our women have 1 or 2 clearly defined formations and a style of play that is delivered to the players by a coach that is capable of articulating everyone's roles within the system. Once they have that, they are RUTHLESS with player selection. If you don't fit the system, you're either on the bench or you're out. If you fit but don't put in the work, you're not even on the bench, you're gone. Ruthless selection makes for roster competition, which produces consistently strong performances because every time they step on the field they're literally playing for a spot in the next game, the next tournament. Look at their interviews from the 2011 World qualifying phase on UA-cam, they're in my inspiration playlists. Players that were mainstays then, and those who are now, ALL talked about the pressure to perform because they KNEW that if they didn't they won't even make the team let alone go to the World Cup. This isn't gender specific, we can learn from the women's methods in player identification, selection, development and implementation. We just have to let go of this ridiculously childish notion that "they're girls, it's not the same".
As much as it hurts to say, this was good for us. It got the old players out and the new, passionate players in. We had the friendly today verse Bolivia with lots of new players and it was fun to watch because they played well and with passion, to push for their spot on the roster. My Starting XI for the USMNT would be:
Steffen, Antonne, Brooks, Miazga, Yedlin, McKennie, Trapp, Weah, Pulisic, Sargent, Wood
It just occured to me. Why isn't Alexi Not the damn coach.
Jessica Sims he's too blunt and calls it how it is and they can't have that lol
Narlington Dagbe 😂
Lalas is a legend and he was right. Hopefully we improve as a soccer nation.
I remember watching Germany and Argentina in the last world cup final. After the game was over I watched a MLS game between two of the better teams. The drop off in skill was astronomical.
This country has so many soccer talents that isn't interested in playing cuz of the way the system is been structured. We need to put more money in developmental soccer to encourage all families and not just families who can afford to enroll their kids in select soccer. There are a lot of talents out there that cannot afford " The pay to play. They should completely re- structure the entire recruiting process which only allows kids to be recruited from college. Our college soccer is not even competitive nor popular . Real soccer players wants to focus on playing then school. Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldhino, Pele, Maradona, Zidane and many more professional players did not get picked from college. I know a lot of young talents on top team bench that are still in high school and might not go to college till later after their career. The MLS also needs to be ripped apart and teams need to start relegating if they do not perform well in a season just like every soccer nation in the world. It will encourage USL league and other minor leagues to step up their game. The MLS also need to be paying better than just the retired designated players making millions. Why should a professional soccer player be making less than $60.000 a year? it does not encourage any potential talent.
My Opinion ranking sports in the States
1.NFL
2.NBA
3.MLB
4.NHL
5.MLS.
But I do agree with him soccer has gotten bigger here but in terms of turning on your local tv and seeing MLS being played nope your more likely to see Arsenal or Manchester United playing in the UK.
Swoody well Manchester United are supported by more Americans than all the MLS combined aha
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1.MLS
2.MLB
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piloy85 sorry that's not how it is
The first time I appreciate Cowherd's comments and this show... Not a bad analysis... :)))
now we just won 2 cups over the summer and Alexi cried on TV. Good stuff
When we start calling it FOOTBALL, then we will start winning!!!
I cant believe this was 3 years ago, and I think the reason they failed is that pulisic was the kid who cared the most! and he was the youngest, that's just sad
Being from England I feel your pain USA. Both in 1994 and 2008 (failed to qualify for the Euros). It really sucks, I can't even describe. Just take the punches and roll on 2022.
ALEXIIIIIII. U PLAYED FOR MY TOWN IN ITALY! PADOVAAAAA! GREAT MEMORIES :D
He scored the winning goal against AC Milan as well.
The rest of the world eat sleep and breathe Foot Ball (soccer) is our commitment passion loyalty and devotion
We're not welcome- Mexico
I remember when Alexi Lala’s looked like the dude from the Spin Doctors 😂
As a Dutchman, I find it staggering how the US approaches it. I learned to play at 2 years old, most of my friends did as well.. you want to play? Grab a ball and go out! You can use your coat as a goalpost! Then when I was 5 I joined a club, it cost maybe 10 euros a month. We played competitively every weekend for years. The best kids got picked up by pro teams. It didn’t cost a lot and we played even outside of the matches and practice; after school, in the school playground, anywhere....it’s not so difficult
admits to drinking and driving on air
marshall myers Never said he was driving
One or two beers doesn't put you over the limit.
one puts you over the limit.if you drive within an hour of drinking it.
Im ILLmatic trollololol
Im ILLmatic what? lol
I had a problem when Panama players would cheap shot Pulisic without being confronted or retaliated. There needs to be an attitude change for sure.
That was strange, I feel similarly -- watching your best player get hacked down by deliberate attempts to main and injure him -- and all the rest of the U.S. players turn away from Pulisic. Seriously lack of team spirit and empathy evident there. U.S. players in MLS matches are well known for having end-of-game American style shoving matches over nothing, but in the most important tournament in soccer, they can't get excited at all about their star player having a bulls-eye target on his back? Serious brain cramp in the rest of team USA on this. The standard operating procedure in leagues around the world when the referee allows your star player to be in dangerously and continuously fouled is to surround the referee and bump him a little until someone gets a yellow card. That's how you get your message across that he's missing these calls. Opponents are always going to try to injure Pulisic until one of them gets a yellow card -- it's part of their ordinary game plan. You have to take this into account and respond strategically to this threat.
i'm from Spain, and i've being all my life a coach so know a little about the sport, and how it works 1-This sport is not about having big, strong and fast athletes. You're so wrong if you think that if lebron, kobe, obj etc. played soccer you woud have a better team. NO, this sport is based 70-80% just in pure skills the example is that the number 1 and 2 (messi/cr7) are physically the opposite. This sport is played by average people (in terms of athleticism), but insane amount of skills with the ball on their feet. 2-To do that you have to develop the skill in the early stages of your life 5-7 years of age, in the streets with no rules against people 2-3 years older than you. There you create that magical and especial talent. With out that it doesn't matter how many time you spend in the gym to became big, strong or fast you'll never be a world class player(by world class player a mean a starter of the top teams in the world RMD, FCB MU, BM, PSG etc. )
3- Then a scout see you an ask you to be a part of the big team's academy, but again because you already have that skills, and you're above average. And that happens when you're arround 10-14 years old. It is very rare to see a big Academy recruiting people when they are older than 16-17. When you're there they teach you the tactics, a deep understanding of the game and the style the team use to play. After that, they start with the high trainings, cardio session, special diet, gym sessions and then is when you became an athlete. So the order is always this 1-skills-2-tactics-3-athleticism, not the other way arround.
4- to develop all of this is basic to get rid of the pay-to-play system, other ways it will be just impossible to the us soccer to have a high competitive team. Because all those boys usually
tend to come from the poorest parts of the population.
lalas is so articulate damn
Alexi Lalas for national team coach
It may hurt the game and it's perception in the US, but not at all internationally, football as a whole is not a tiny bit dependent on the US
diggi juri he meant it hurt the perception of the US internationally, I think.
I was waiting for his rant today because wow... what a game today sheesh
Alexi Lawless is so effing articulate. Grew up loving this guy and still do now!
Lalas is 100% correct. The Mexican national team, even when they win 80% of the time the game analysis spend it saying how they got lucky, how they aren't good enough and pointing out all the bad things.
Germany's B and C team would have qualified because they develop their players and their scouting infrastructure is the best in the world
Free Brady Every Germany team is good, Germany brought a C team to the Confederations cup and still destroyed Mexico and Chile in the Semi’s and the Final.
Angelito 14 more like B team, they also had key players like ter Steger and Timo werner
Cómo olvidar a Alexis Lalas y cómo celebraba cuando anotaba un gol.
I love it when Colin is on soccer
MLS is to the Premier League the same way the CFL is to the NFL.
I am coaching in USA since 1983 when I came play soccer in New York, the youth soccer clubs and leagues are for profitability just like MLS and US Soccer Federation, they not interest in poor communities to help kids of low income classes to play soccer. No coaches, parents from the middle class or rich want to do nothing in this communities, even the immigrants kids when they come to america, their parents want them in the rich soccer programs. In Brasil talents kids in soccer comes from the favelas, poor communities, rich kids play soccer till they grown up to 13 yrs old and tell they parents they don't want to play soccer anymore because their over coached by their coaches and parents. THe whole mentality and systems of youth soccer development must change or soccer will die again in USA. Have you see how Much money parents pay for their kids to play on a travel team? Have you see how much money us youth soccer program charge for the us youth soccer tryouts? Soccer In US is for rich Kids and rich kids do not have talent for soccer, will not have enough hungry to live soccer 24/7 and all these US ex former from US knows that. Like Claudio Reyna, Tab Ramos and others that came to America poor Kids.
As a mexican american, im glad to see reactions like this(even though it took the usmnt to not qualify to go to the world cup to finally have people talking about their national soccer team). I hope that the team takes all the critism they get seriously and learn. Everytime I saw the usmnt play, it felt like they were playing to win but not necessarily playing as if they NEEDED to win. As for the people who say "Who cares about soccer"....well imo you're partically to blame for this as the players didn't have a country behind their back. They had like maybe a third of it.
This footage has been MOST EDIFYING!
Sunil Gulati needs to go...
I hope they use this to come back stronger and better. Invest in college soccer that kids have a reason to play well while in middle and high school. You'll get a huge pool of players with D1 University soccer league. You do this and within 20 years the U.S. will be a soccer super power.
Sincerely, a concerned Mexican
That's part of the problem though D1 universities don't always have the BEST players. Not to say that they're not really good because they are, but they get there because they had the money to travel and get exposure that other players wouldn't have gotten. I've met and played with plenty of D2 and D3 players that are amazing, but never had the money for the pay to win system
Yea Trinidadddd🇹🇹
I’m here from the future... and I have great news about the USMNT
Weird to see colin talking about football
thomas talks about football everyday
James Foreman he’s talking about football, not american football
James Foreman you mean handegg
It's both weird and funny, considering Colin knows nothing about football.
Minute 6:24 Colin "Yes, I think LeBron is great"
Get rid of Bradley and altidore and you have a great start
I remember Lalas and his hair from USA 94. :-)
lmao " Pulisic, Wood......."
U.S. mens's soccer doing U.S. men's soccer things.
the donovan curse
portilla 30 what is it
🤣 ayeee this was probably the best rant ever
Taylor Twellman's rant after October 10, 2017 was better.
Watch out for that Dagbe fella!
This US soccer team is simply not good enough & mls is a joke league
Alert Eddie ikr I don't know y their so mad nd shocked😂
Alert Eddie you don’t necessarily need a good domestic league to be a good national team. I’m Bosnian and our domestic league is horrible, 100x worse than MLS, and we have generally had good results the last 10 years or so, even qualifying for our first World Cup
Muhamed Campara the mls formot is a horrible system nd teams need to be relegated...in the US you need to pay to play soccer, thats not how its in europe,south america, africa nd asia
Alert Eddie why would they pay players for a sport that Americans don’t watch or enjoy
no you don't no other serious league in the country has relegation
USMNT needs to prioritize scheduling games with COMEMBOL teams, Premier League teams, and La Liga teams. There's money to fly them out and do a tour.
Dragga - What is that line...."To be the best, you have to beat the best!!"
to play friendlies where the other teams dont care about?
KingShadow11 Yup. US Women's Team does it all the time, that's why they are a top team in the World, they play and run as a unit. Even if the other teams don't care about the friendly, it'll condition the USMNT to be able to play together better, know how to flow with each other better. We don't have a Messi that can do it all for us, at least for not another 4 years.
Dragga nah, they probably are the best because no one else gives 2fucks about women's soccer.
Lalas de hecho tiene una filosofía de fútbol interesante.
I feel like Anericans have this convo every time a WC comes around. Same thing is happening here in England. Just not good enough.