Pay for play is the worst, my little brother just started playing for a team and the money we pay is ridiculous. We are pricing so many good kids out of the game. The inly reason he was able to play is because thankfully we have a good tight nit community and helped him out with fees but it's crazy
@@NitroFooty They have it in most American leagues except in the MLS is actually better, for instance in the NHL, you can Qualify A Free agent (RFA) and someone will have to compensate you in draft picks depending on how much you payed for the player)
The whole pay to play thing is by design from the federation. They don’t want kids from poor communities getting a chance cause they want US soccer to continue to be an “old boys club” where they can pick and choose which kids are good enough to represent the US on the world stage.. and the ones they choose always just happen to be the kids who have family in USSF, family who are former players or comes from very rich communities. Soccer in America is simply a rich kid, nepotism sport and they want it to stay that way. They don’t actually care about wanting to win.
I have never agreed with a video on the USA’s issues when it comes to the game SOOO many of us here love. Thank you SO MUCH for making this content, keep it up pls! You’ve got a new subscriber, right here.
How does making someone a fan of some British team help Soccer in the U.S.? You people are backwards. Support MLS, support USL, support High School Soccer if you actually want to improve the sport HERE in the U.S.
I don't give a crap if the national team is good as long as the sport is growing in love here in America, I've even been turning my family into fans and even a few days ago my Grandpa asked me to help him pick a premier league team to support!
This is very true. I play ECNL for the Dallas Texans 2012 Academy ECNL and we have to pay a fee of $3600.00 a year but our uniform is covered. Pretty much in the USA its Pay to Play hopefully yall understand❤
We've got similar problems in Australia, our professional clubs have academies but not domestic transfer fees, and we haven't had promotion/relegation since the late 80s
@@NitroFooty He was developed mainly in Germany, not in the US system. Also, you surely know that most top players come from modest or even poor backgrounds.
Canada is not as good at hockey as we used to be because its too expensive for most families to play at a high level. I remember public rinks, pond hockey etc was really popular as a kid in the 80's, 90's now its non existent. you could be gretzky but if your arents aint got the 7000 a year for equipment, travel, team exenses etc your never gonna make it. thats why russia iss getting better, most poor people play hockey in Russia in the winter, skates and a stick is all you need to play 8 hours a day, 7 days a week as a youth
The first fundamental problem with US soccer is the USSF, an organization riddled with corruption, incompetence and indifference. The second basic issue is capitalism and how it infects the pay-for-play profit-making priority over creating soccer talent. Soccer is really just a cash cow for kids and their parent s being milked for every dime. The third and most vital crisis revolves round the culture of football, which in this nation has no resemblance to that in the rest of the world. Here it is suburbanized, homogenized and compartmentalized into a commercial package with no difference from McNuggets, Range Rovers and WeedWhackers.
It’s really not much of a cash cow. It’s simply that rentals, insurance, and everything else is so much more expensive for clubs here that it’s not even close to sustainable at a cheap level
Soccer is stupid in that way. What is the "USSF" anyway? We dont have those middle-men in the NBA, NFL, MLB... but for some reason, Soccer is "governed" by these other entities (FIFA, UEFA, CONCACF, USSF, etc)
I'm a US Soccer fan since 2010, and I demand a complete 180. This to me is not American to accept mediocrity. I demand excellence from a national team in the biggest sport on the planet. I'm this close to just switching national teams.
The last 50 years?!? The US has been attending the world cup since the first one in 1930 so try 100 😂 we do have the first ever WC win and the first ever world cup game clean sheet tho, so we have some roots to work on 💪🔥 btw love your videos, just discovered you today and I already subscribed. Keep it up.
I just really want to point out that this "academy" thing isn't a "big team thing". I live in Belgium and the town I live in NOW has 3700 people. I started playing for the team when I was 6 back in 1997 and played there until I was 16 and quit. This "academy" thing isn't some big thing. EVERY team has it. I also want to add that you guys understand one of the reasons it's so cheap is because the government funds a lot of this, right? We pay 50% taxes on anything over 40k over here and as somebody who has a lot of CEO's in his family we often contribute to these teams by sponsoring them. I think my father sponsors a cycle team (It's Belgium, kind of our thing) and his local soccer team.
Only other part maybe to touch on is the stupid TV rights and how ESPN (the "leader" in sports) doesn't cover any soccer at all which I think is an issue for overall exposure
Love the video! I know this is a quick hitter video, but man you could have gone even harder at GGG and the Federation for how poorly they are performing with this generation of talent. Great video overall. Thanks!
I know I probably already have 5 comments on this video, but I wanna pay attention to a comment I made on another YT video (not by your channel) on how US DOMESTIC soccer is fine (not national team) These are the reasons the MLS is completely fine. 1. The Salary Cap. Could it be a bit higher, yes. But this is the one thing that stops clubs to overly spend on players. It keeps every team competitive and ensures every team actually has a real chance of winning. Just look at how many teams in the NHL, NFL, MLS, and MLB have switched winning teams over the years. A team may win 2-3 times in a row but that's it. 2. No promotion/relegation. The reason I say this is for 2 key reasons. Firstly, it would be hard for a smaller club to be able to even play in the MLS due to the Continent-wide travel that you don't have to deal with in England, which makes change really hard to adapt too. Secondly even with divisions, having too many like 4 isn't an option as Traveling the Mississippi river is way different than traveling the entire 38th parallel. Plus, the fact each state could be considered a country. It also makes sure nobody tries to spend SOOO much just to collapse after failing to be promoted or getting relegated. It's happened more often than you think 3. The way the USL is set up now. With the MLS being a relaxed league, an experience like no other is offered in the USL. Changing the setup with Pro/reg would hurt either USL or MLS teams a lot. Plus, the fact teams in the 2. USL are semi-pro and college. It wouldn't make sense at least right now to change the system when the players in the 2. USL wouldn't be ready for the USL and how the USL and MLS clubs would be dwarfed by one another due to the league culture practically being opposites. The change at least for now, doesn't make sense. Plus, the fact it makes more sense for the circumstances in comparison to other leagues in America. RFA could be somewhat like discovery rights. So, the one place US soccer excels, is the ability to be immortal to collapse.
Uruguay population 3.4 mil - TWO world cup wins. US population 342 mil. Estimated total number of youth in soccer development academies in Uruguay at U14 -- 79 thousand; for USA at U14 -- 2.4 million. It's the quality of training, not the number of youth being trained. We need to focus on recruiting socioeconomically disadvantaged youth--we owe it to them and these youth have much more ambition/drive. MSL/USSF needs to comply with FIFA RSTP solidarity payment guidelines, so that US youth soccer development can shift from the short-term goal of extracting fees from parents to the long-term goal of actually developing youth skills/knowledge (This actually will make $$$$$$$$$ in the long term). USSF can also get a real manager for the men's team. Jurgen Klopp is out there!
This is a great informative video, I find any time I find an American footy fan they're usually the opposite of you 😂 they have very high regards for mls comparing it as a top 5 league and the US national team is apparently one of the best in the world. Its good to see how honest you're, other American influencers are much more drink the Kool aid types
It has not been that many years since USA has picked up soccer as its sport. It is not the main sport in the country. Therefore, U.S. struggles against in the world competition.
For me, I'm fine with the USA's MLS and how it's set up (the draft is fine and all, it's a closed league, and discovery rights is kind of like a franchise tag in NFL or RFA in NHL, so by the U.S. standard it's fine. The difference between America in Soccer and other sports is because of how strong the league is to others. The NFL and NHL are the biggest leagues in the world of their sport, and the U.S. believes in more competition and capitalism, which is why the top teams win the league in suspenseful ways, and the bottom get their own suspense in the draft (Connor Berdard in NHL, and Caleb Williams in NFL), I believe the academies they could be good only if they stop the way they have their youth system set up, and it's way worse in other sports. I play hockey for example, and the better the team is, the more you have to pay. Skaters may have to pay $500 a year on equipment alone, and for me as a goalie, it's more like $1500 on my part. And the fact that playing for your average single A team could be $2.5K a year, (which is worse because this is tiered, so they make more money) AA could pay $5K a year, and AAA Could pay $7K a year, Juniors is worse depending on the league. So in overall, the MLS is only really doing bad because it isn't the best in the world. If you say the other leagues don't have competition the NHL has the European Counterpart (It's smaller but still 13 countries+Russia, and Russia is big on Hockey) The NFL a lot less, and talking about academies, since Soccer is a such smaller sport, paying for an academy is better. As Americans we do love playoffs though. So To end my thoughts, the MLS would not have this problem if they had the biggest league and attracted others, which would also help the national team as well. (Partially why I want to play hockey in Sweeden or Finnland is because they pay me instead of my family playing them) Hope this helps, be free to ask me any questions if my choice of words was a bit unclear
good point about NHL, but since Ice Hockey is a smaller sport overall, it doesn't have the competition of a better system overseas due to the lack of interest. There's not enough eyes to sustain multiple levels of a hockey pyramid
@@NitroFooty Not really, competition in places like Scandinavia, Russia, and Germany are able to sustain multiple tiers of Hockey, not only that but Ice hockey in Asia is skyrocketing (Mostly South Korea), but there can be competition, it's just that when a closed league with its parameters is on top, it will always be above its competition. W Petr Cech for playing Hockey after retiring though.
I don't follow the NHL, but I do know that in Basketball the NBA Draft is super important... having the 1st pick, maybe a top 3 pick, can have a huge impact. But how true is that in Hockey? Are players from other Hockey leagues around the world beholden to the NHL Draft system or can NHL teams just sign great players from other countries as Free Agents?
USA's current crop of players is their best ever, but it's still just average at best, especially when you look at their defensive players, which are key to going on any kind of run in a tournament. Look at 2022 World Cup, USA got a 1-1 draw with Wales, then a 0-0 draw with England, a game which England treated as a rest day, and then barely beat Iran 1-0, the same Iran side that England dismantled 6-2 for fun. Then USA gets easily and comfortably dismantled by a good Netherlands side 3-1, they were cruising the entire game. USA doesn't have anything special, they supposedly have a great attack, which is just average at best, and they don't have a good defense at all. They can get draws against average team's or good teams that aren't trying, and when they play a good team in a game that actually matters, USA is second best from start to finish.
I think that’s mostly a fair assessment, but our striker against Netherlands was our 5th-6th best striker, and Pulisic was injured. It’s hard to criticize our best players in the attack when it’s not even our best playing
The only thing I disagree with is your comparing your US youth soccer experience, or lack thereof, to how every other person experienced the sport. It really all depends on the state you were raised in. I was raised in Maryland/DC/VA, and the Washington Diplomats and the Cosmos were everywhere and everything to entire generation of pre-corporate paytoplay.
These Euro-snobs don't care about the lower-leagues in the U.S. The bigger and better that leagues like USL-C and NISA keep getting, actually upsets their crusty narrative about Pro-Rel. We don't need Pro-Rel to have successful, thriving lower leagues/teams. USL teams are building acdademies too, it's not just MLS.
Our pure talent in the country is better than any other country. By like 10 times. It's not even close. Imagine Le Bron on the pitch since he was 5 yo.
Whats the difference between a normal person praciting when since they were 5 and Lebron? We have lots of tall, atheltic practicing football/soccer for years and they could never make it. Logic makes no chance. Imagine Usian Bolt playing the sport.. oh wait he did, and failed. Theres differences in skill 😅
I mean you have some points. But those same players that are playing in the top 5 leagues made some awful turnovers. Thts not a berhalter issue. I don’t care for his tactics, but, there are at least 3 other major sports leagues in the us that have been a major focus for decades, long before soccer. Until the top elite talent chooses soccer, we will continue to perform the way we do no matter who the coach is. I mean the guys we have now aren’t really the elite athletes in our country. Great yea….elite? No. I do agree that MLS needs to change their academy strategies and make it more affordable to all the players. That would definitely help. Good video though.
We played this 5-1 loss in DC…our nations capital….in front of 55K fans….and I’m sure 75% of the fans were Colombia supporters. US Soccer will think they were empty seats in Commanders Stadium as gullible as they are. If the fans not turning up and had enough of this guy (and not paying the stupidly expensive tickets I might add) isn’t your first clue? Then we’re doomed even before 2026 gets here…😢
I’ve been watching on and off for about since I was 10 . Favorite team is Chelsea bc I had a Fernando Torres jersey from Ross . I don’t know how people can talk about nepotism with bronny James and not talk about the nepotism in us futbol. It’s absurd
Which American sport would Messi have played? Or Modric? These smaller athletes have always been available to US soccer, as the physical size requirements are not as extreme as American football, basketball or even baseball. In fact, for some positions smaller size can be an advantage. Therefore this notion of other sports stealing the best athletes from soccer has always been a bit weak to me, and an excuse for US Soccer to hide behind. It’s our system that sucks. If Messi or Maradona grew up in the US, they likely would have played soccer but would not have become world class in our system.
I don’t think you understand…these young athletes still play basketball and American football despite their size. They will have no chance of going to the NBA because they will be 5’9”, but they still choose as their main sport growing up.
@@NitroFooty I don’t think you understand. Very few athletes at 5’6 would continue with basketball or football. There has always been ample opportunity for US soccer to recruit and develop these athletes. Also, even more fundamentally, the US men don’t lose games because of lack of athleticism. We lose because of tactical and creative deficiencies, which again are down to player development problems. I’m not actively disagreeing with your video by the way. It actually makes your criticisms against pay to play even more valid.
The reason usa will never be good is because of the basic roots of the game.You knyhow many good players yall have missed out on bc they couldn’t afford the team they are playing on?
I'm sure the US will get even better at soccer/football at some point, but we still have a LONG way to go lmao. Even for our standards, that 5-1 loss against Colombia was just unacceptable and there needs to be change in order for us to become a competent team. All I'm hoping for right now is that if we lose against Brazil, we can at least lose in a dignified manner lol.
A league where teams encourage to finish LAST? And somehow i can imagine there are clubs who called dibs/discovery rights on every human being on the planet 😂 or can you called dibs on the super draft players too? What a joke 😂
It´s not really discovery rights. It´s formation rights. So you have a very humble lower division team that has a great academy system for kids from 9 years and older. They form the kids in these lower divisions giving them not only a futbol education but also a formal schooling education. Sometimes they even give them a place to live and eat because they are from another town. These academies are almost futbol schools, and they are free for the kids. So these kids continue in the academy based on merits. They can end up with a pro contract in the team, or if they are really good they might get an international contract with a european club (star players like Endrik from Brasil). The teams invest money in these academies and they are granted a formation fee payed by the big club giving this kid a contract (a very small percentage of the value but a good amount for a small club). This formation fee is executed every time a player changes a club (and is always payed by the contracting team). So the academies importance is to discover great talents and form them into great players. I was lucky to play a whole year in the academy of my team (but obviously wasn't good and ended up studying a normal career). An example of these academies is Barcelona's famous "La Massia". Lamine Yamal (16y.o.) the great spanish star that is right now playing the Euro, has to do homework between training sessions. They are not going to sell him, but if the did, in future contracts they would receive this fee.
@@NitroFooty snowflake?🤣🤣 bro it’s not like the UK calls basketball, rimball or netball… I think if we as Americans want to get better at football, we should call it by its actual name.
@@dodovolcano the way I look at it, we don’t take football as serious as we should. It might seem a tiny thing, but in reality, football culture is lacking in America and one way we can implement it is by calling the sport its actual name.
We clearly have the ability to produce players in top leagues, but that only does so much for team cohesion. 1st: No MLS garbage coaches should be allowed to manage a team of european players. So first things first we need more forward thinking leaders starting with the manager and USSF. We need a manager thats going to play a consistent style of play and start playing that way at U17, 19, 21, 23 etc. levels so when these guys step in the first team for the US there's no tactical recalibration. 2nd: USSF needs to stop being happy being comfortably #1 in CONCACAF. Sure we win most Gold Cups and Nations leagues, but those are mickey mouse trophies and we'll end up stagnant like Mexico as a big fish in a small pond with that type of thinking. Unless we push to be in a better confederation, I think we will always be trapped in the top 10-20 places like happened to Mexico over the last 50 years. CONCACAF provides 1 or maybe 2 (recently) tough opponents in between World Cups in competitive games. USSF should really be leading the charge to try and merge with CONMEBOL to make some sort of Pan-American federation and do more tournaments like the 16 team Copa America where we'd play Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, etc on a regular basis in World Cup Qualifying and Copa America.
Ha, this team was full of your Foreign-Leaguers and they were the WORST version of the USMNT. Karma hit you toxic USMNT fans hard. Start supporting the Domestic Leagues instead of further helping England, Italy, Germany and their leagues. Don't be a Euro-cuck.
We are literally a top 8 to 12th-ish country in the world. Saying “we suck” is hugely inaccurate. We’re a good coach away from being a 5th to 8th best team in the world.
@@kobio1994 No ranking system is perfect, they’re the best marker we have. I’d say it’s accurate within 2-3 places for 95% of squads. Sometimes there’s an outlier that ends up being way out of place. You should watch a video that highlights how they form those rankings and then you might sing a different tune.
Pay for play is the worst, my little brother just started playing for a team and the money we pay is ridiculous. We are pricing so many good kids out of the game. The inly reason he was able to play is because thankfully we have a good tight nit community and helped him out with fees but it's crazy
Pay for play is the worst, my little brother just started playing for a team and the money we pay is ridiculous. We are pricing so many good kids out of the game. The inly reason he was able to play is because thankfully we have a good tight nit community and helped him out with fees but it's crazy
I never knew about the whole "discovery" thing. That is absolutely ridiculous.
It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of
@@NitroFooty They have it in most American leagues except in the MLS is actually better, for instance in the NHL, you can Qualify A Free agent (RFA) and someone will have to compensate you in draft picks depending on how much you payed for the player)
No its not, it helps with Parity.
The whole pay to play thing is by design from the federation. They don’t want kids from poor communities getting a chance cause they want US soccer to continue to be an “old boys club” where they can pick and choose which kids are good enough to represent the US on the world stage.. and the ones they choose always just happen to be the kids who have family in USSF, family who are former players or comes from very rich communities. Soccer in America is simply a rich kid, nepotism sport and they want it to stay that way. They don’t actually care about wanting to win.
could be but probably not
100% agree which is why as an American I’m happy to see this national team full of nepotism fail
I have never agreed with a video on the USA’s issues when it comes to the game SOOO many of us here love.
Thank you SO MUCH for making this content, keep it up pls! You’ve got a new subscriber, right here.
Glad you enjoyed!
How does making someone a fan of some British team help Soccer in the U.S.? You people are backwards. Support MLS, support USL, support High School Soccer if you actually want to improve the sport HERE in the U.S.
I don't give a crap if the national team is good as long as the sport is growing in love here in America, I've even been turning my family into fans and even a few days ago my Grandpa asked me to help him pick a premier league team to support!
thats great!
@@NitroFooty Well... he picked Spurs 😭
Thats sad😢@@AgentWinterz
@@AgentWinterz unlucky lol
LOL. This comment helps prove my point (a comment I just posted). STOP SUPPORTING Foreign Leagues if you care about Soccer in the U.S.
This is very true. I play ECNL for the Dallas Texans 2012 Academy ECNL and we have to pay a fee of $3600.00 a year but our uniform is covered. Pretty much in the USA its Pay to Play hopefully yall understand❤
Yeah it’s so expensive
We've got similar problems in Australia, our professional clubs have academies but not domestic transfer fees, and we haven't had promotion/relegation since the late 80s
brutal
This video is so true and I swear espn makes it seem like the U.S.A. National team can beat Argentina 💀 They can barely beat Bolivia 😂.
Ok now we may not be able to beat Argentina but give us SOME credit 😂
It’s also the nature of that player pool…rich suburban kids usually don’t have that fire to be a pro player.
Like Christian Pulisic?
@@NitroFooty He was developed mainly in Germany, not in the US system.
Also, you surely know that most top players come from modest or even poor backgrounds.
Canada is not as good at hockey as we used to be because its too expensive for most families to play at a high level. I remember public rinks, pond hockey etc was really popular as a kid in the 80's, 90's now its non existent. you could be gretzky but if your arents aint got the 7000 a year for equipment, travel, team exenses etc your never gonna make it. thats why russia iss getting better, most poor people play hockey in Russia in the winter, skates and a stick is all you need to play 8 hours a day, 7 days a week as a youth
Yeah it stinks man
The first fundamental problem with US soccer is the USSF, an organization riddled with corruption, incompetence and indifference. The second basic issue is capitalism and how it infects the pay-for-play profit-making priority over creating soccer talent. Soccer is really just a cash cow for kids and their parent s being milked for every dime. The third and most vital crisis revolves round the culture of football, which in this nation has no resemblance to that in the rest of the world. Here it is suburbanized, homogenized and compartmentalized into a commercial package with no difference from McNuggets, Range Rovers and WeedWhackers.
It’s really not much of a cash cow. It’s simply that rentals, insurance, and everything else is so much more expensive for clubs here that it’s not even close to sustainable at a cheap level
Soccer is stupid in that way. What is the "USSF" anyway? We dont have those middle-men in the NBA, NFL, MLB... but for some reason, Soccer is "governed" by these other entities (FIFA, UEFA, CONCACF, USSF, etc)
@@NitroFootyyeah that's a cash cow for the businesses selling this stuff.
@@buddylee5712 thats true, how do we fix this?
I'm a US Soccer fan since 2010, and I demand a complete 180. This to me is not American to accept mediocrity. I demand excellence from a national team in the biggest sport on the planet. I'm this close to just switching national teams.
THIS!
@@NitroFooty no im serious. I'm this close to finding a NEW national team. I'm tired of it all. It's not fun supporting a group of losers.
@@jonathonedwardmillerI go for 3 lol
@@jonathonedwardmiller canada accepts you with open arms
This aged like a fine wine. Bravo - well said!
Thanks man
The last 50 years?!? The US has been attending the world cup since the first one in 1930 so try 100 😂 we do have the first ever WC win and the first ever world cup game clean sheet tho, so we have some roots to work on 💪🔥 btw love your videos, just discovered you today and I already subscribed. Keep it up.
USA attended the first world cups because anyone who want to attend could, and then did not qualify for another World Cup for over half of a century.
As an academy coach I have seen sooo much talent fall through the ranks cause how expensive it is
Facts, same here
Pay to play is the biggest issue, and the MLS only benefits the development of the players they import from other countries.
Wow THIS IS SHOCKING. Great video amigo
Thanks so much man!
I just really want to point out that this "academy" thing isn't a "big team thing".
I live in Belgium and the town I live in NOW has 3700 people.
I started playing for the team when I was 6 back in 1997 and played there until I was 16 and quit.
This "academy" thing isn't some big thing. EVERY team has it.
I also want to add that you guys understand one of the reasons it's so cheap is because the government funds a lot of this, right?
We pay 50% taxes on anything over 40k over here and as somebody who has a lot of CEO's in his family we often contribute to these teams by sponsoring them. I think my father sponsors a cycle team (It's Belgium, kind of our thing) and his local soccer team.
Only other part maybe to touch on is the stupid TV rights and how ESPN (the "leader" in sports) doesn't cover any soccer at all which I think is an issue for overall exposure
FACTS
Love the video! I know this is a quick hitter video, but man you could have gone even harder at GGG and the Federation for how poorly they are performing with this generation of talent. Great video overall. Thanks!
I definitely could've gone much harder but if I didn't edit out those parts I was going to get demonetized lmao
I know I probably already have 5 comments on this video, but I wanna pay attention to a comment I made on another YT video (not by your channel) on how US DOMESTIC soccer is fine (not national team)
These are the reasons the MLS is completely fine.
1. The Salary Cap. Could it be a bit higher, yes. But this is the one thing that stops clubs to overly spend on players. It keeps every team competitive and ensures every team actually has a real chance of winning. Just look at how many teams in the NHL, NFL, MLS, and MLB have switched winning teams over the years. A team may win 2-3 times in a row but that's it.
2. No promotion/relegation. The reason I say this is for 2 key reasons. Firstly, it would be hard for a smaller club to be able to even play in the MLS due to the Continent-wide travel that you don't have to deal with in England, which makes change really hard to adapt too. Secondly even with divisions, having too many like 4 isn't an option as Traveling the Mississippi river is way different than traveling the entire 38th parallel. Plus, the fact each state could be considered a country. It also makes sure nobody tries to spend SOOO much just to collapse after failing to be promoted or getting relegated. It's happened more often than you think
3. The way the USL is set up now. With the MLS being a relaxed league, an experience like no other is offered in the USL. Changing the setup with Pro/reg would hurt either USL or MLS teams a lot. Plus, the fact teams in the 2. USL are semi-pro and college. It wouldn't make sense at least right now to change the system when the players in the 2. USL wouldn't be ready for the USL and how the USL and MLS clubs would be dwarfed by one another due to the league culture practically being opposites. The change at least for now, doesn't make sense.
Plus, the fact it makes more sense for the circumstances in comparison to other leagues in America. RFA could be somewhat like discovery rights. So, the one place US soccer excels, is the ability to be immortal to collapse.
I appreciate your comments brother , preach
@@NitroFooty Ty!
Uruguay population 3.4 mil - TWO world cup wins. US population 342 mil. Estimated total number of youth in soccer development academies in Uruguay at U14 -- 79 thousand; for USA at U14 -- 2.4 million. It's the quality of training, not the number of youth being trained. We need to focus on recruiting socioeconomically disadvantaged youth--we owe it to them and these youth have much more ambition/drive. MSL/USSF needs to comply with FIFA RSTP solidarity payment guidelines, so that US youth soccer development can shift from the short-term goal of extracting fees from parents to the long-term goal of actually developing youth skills/knowledge (This actually will make $$$$$$$$$ in the long term). USSF can also get a real manager for the men's team. Jurgen Klopp is out there!
USA made 3rd place in one of the world cups that Uruguay won tbf.
Just wait 15 years
I believe!
Europe and south america produces crazy talents, hopefully usa can produce at least some
its funny that they break so many records in sports like swimming golf tennis etc
still can't belive the usa lost 5-1
So good at like 99% of sports...but not the most important one
Greg berhalter
Missing the 2018 World Cup did irreparable damage to the sports growth here.
That was a dark time
MLS next is coming
I’ve coached against a lot of mls next teams with my youth teams, there’s a lot of talent coming
MLS nex thas nearly 700 academies now... USL teams are building academies too. Pro-Rel is a no needed (or wanted)
Down with pay to play
Indeed
You think the US plays bad? Wait until you see the Vietnam National Team
hahaha
The US is still bad
This is a great informative video, I find any time I find an American footy fan they're usually the opposite of you 😂 they have very high regards for mls comparing it as a top 5 league and the US national team is apparently one of the best in the world. Its good to see how honest you're, other American influencers are much more drink the Kool aid types
Thank you bro!
Honestly, the USMNT have had more successful runs in World Cups than Japan for instance which is insane when you think about it.
Our best runs came in 1930s which isn’t exactly what we are looking for
@@NitroFooty Well you reached the quarter-finals once, a lot of big teams haven't been that far at a World Cup before.
This is how pissed people were with Berhalter before his latest huge fail in Copa.
in the US everything is a potential cash cow! that's why the game won't grow the way it could or should
BRILLIANT SIR - YOU ARE SO RIGHT
Thank you Greg
no its not.
What
Colombia is just built different
It has not been that many years since USA has picked up soccer as its sport. It is not the main sport in the country. Therefore, U.S. struggles against in the world competition.
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For me, I'm fine with the USA's MLS and how it's set up (the draft is fine and all, it's a closed league, and discovery rights is kind of like a franchise tag in NFL or RFA in NHL, so by the U.S. standard it's fine. The difference between America in Soccer and other sports is because of how strong the league is to others. The NFL and NHL are the biggest leagues in the world of their sport, and the U.S. believes in more competition and capitalism, which is why the top teams win the league in suspenseful ways, and the bottom get their own suspense in the draft (Connor Berdard in NHL, and Caleb Williams in NFL), I believe the academies they could be good only if they stop the way they have their youth system set up, and it's way worse in other sports. I play hockey for example, and the better the team is, the more you have to pay. Skaters may have to pay $500 a year on equipment alone, and for me as a goalie, it's more like $1500 on my part. And the fact that playing for your average single A team could be $2.5K a year, (which is worse because this is tiered, so they make more money) AA could pay $5K a year, and AAA Could pay $7K a year, Juniors is worse depending on the league. So in overall, the MLS is only really doing bad because it isn't the best in the world. If you say the other leagues don't have competition the NHL has the European Counterpart (It's smaller but still 13 countries+Russia, and Russia is big on Hockey) The NFL a lot less, and talking about academies, since Soccer is a such smaller sport, paying for an academy is better. As Americans we do love playoffs though. So To end my thoughts, the MLS would not have this problem if they had the biggest league and attracted others, which would also help the national team as well. (Partially why I want to play hockey in Sweeden or Finnland is because they pay me instead of my family playing them) Hope this helps, be free to ask me any questions if my choice of words was a bit unclear
good point about NHL, but since Ice Hockey is a smaller sport overall, it doesn't have the competition of a better system overseas due to the lack of interest. There's not enough eyes to sustain multiple levels of a hockey pyramid
@@NitroFooty Not really, competition in places like Scandinavia, Russia, and Germany are able to sustain multiple tiers of Hockey, not only that but Ice hockey in Asia is skyrocketing (Mostly South Korea), but there can be competition, it's just that when a closed league with its parameters is on top, it will always be above its competition. W Petr Cech for playing Hockey after retiring though.
I don't follow the NHL, but I do know that in Basketball the NBA Draft is super important... having the 1st pick, maybe a top 3 pick, can have a huge impact. But how true is that in Hockey? Are players from other Hockey leagues around the world beholden to the NHL Draft system or can NHL teams just sign great players from other countries as Free Agents?
USA's current crop of players is their best ever, but it's still just average at best, especially when you look at their defensive players, which are key to going on any kind of run in a tournament.
Look at 2022 World Cup, USA got a 1-1 draw with Wales, then a 0-0 draw with England, a game which England treated as a rest day, and then barely beat Iran 1-0, the same Iran side that England dismantled 6-2 for fun.
Then USA gets easily and comfortably dismantled by a good Netherlands side 3-1, they were cruising the entire game.
USA doesn't have anything special, they supposedly have a great attack, which is just average at best, and they don't have a good defense at all. They can get draws against average team's or good teams that aren't trying, and when they play a good team in a game that actually matters, USA is second best from start to finish.
I think that’s mostly a fair assessment, but our striker against Netherlands was our 5th-6th best striker, and Pulisic was injured. It’s hard to criticize our best players in the attack when it’s not even our best playing
You also criticize our defense then give examples of our defense carrying us to results in World Cup group stage.
Dude took 45 seconds to bring up 1776, poor form.
I thought it was hilarious
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golden chance missed to put a eagle screech over this
Omg you’re 100% right
The only thing I disagree with is your comparing your US youth soccer experience, or lack thereof, to how every other person experienced the sport. It really all depends on the state you were raised in. I was raised in Maryland/DC/VA, and the Washington Diplomats and the Cosmos were everywhere and everything to entire generation of pre-corporate paytoplay.
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Speaking of promotion, relegation, and the American lower leagues, consider doing a video about the OVPL and how Northern Kentucky Nitro was founded.
Maybe will do in the future
These Euro-snobs don't care about the lower-leagues in the U.S. The bigger and better that leagues like USL-C and NISA keep getting, actually upsets their crusty narrative about Pro-Rel. We don't need Pro-Rel to have successful, thriving lower leagues/teams. USL teams are building acdademies too, it's not just MLS.
Pay for play doesn't bother me. People get what they accept.
😂 you must be kicking yourself how accurate this is post Copa loss
I knew before it all happened lol
Our pure talent in the country is better than any other country. By like 10 times. It's not even close. Imagine Le Bron on the pitch since he was 5 yo.
USA definitely has the most athletic success, but it’s never been much for real football, especially the men
@@NitroFooty Its because the system attracts to Europe instead of the U.S.
Whats the difference between a normal person praciting when since they were 5 and Lebron? We have lots of tall, atheltic practicing football/soccer for years and they could never make it. Logic makes no chance. Imagine Usian Bolt playing the sport.. oh wait he did, and failed. Theres differences in skill 😅
I mean you have some points. But those same players that are playing in the top 5 leagues made some awful turnovers. Thts not a berhalter issue. I don’t care for his tactics, but, there are at least 3 other major sports leagues in the us that have been a major focus for decades, long before soccer. Until the top elite talent chooses soccer, we will continue to perform the way we do no matter who the coach is. I mean the guys we have now aren’t really the elite athletes in our country. Great yea….elite? No. I do agree that MLS needs to change their academy strategies and make it more affordable to all the players. That would definitely help. Good video though.
Thanks bro
We played this 5-1 loss in DC…our nations capital….in front of 55K fans….and I’m sure 75% of the fans were Colombia supporters.
US Soccer will think they were empty seats in Commanders Stadium as gullible as they are. If the fans not turning up and had enough of this guy (and not paying the stupidly expensive tickets I might add) isn’t your first clue? Then we’re doomed even before 2026 gets here…😢
We get to host Copa America AND the World Cup and we're going to waste it with this guy leading the team
I’ve been watching on and off for about since I was 10 . Favorite team is Chelsea bc I had a Fernando Torres jersey from Ross . I don’t know how people can talk about nepotism with bronny James and not talk about the nepotism in us futbol. It’s absurd
Gio Reyna has earned his spot and what other players have that advantage?
This video aged like fine wine 😂
I knew what was coming
Indian/usa cricket team.
Nope just 🇺🇸. They are Americans
@@NitroFooty sure....
Also… Cricket isn’t shown on tv nor (embraced) and the US is dominating.
Dominating vs 1 upset victory vs Pakistan is a big difference
It's called Baseball here.
Canada football going up ⚽️
What a tournament for them
I dont understand why they are USMNT and not just USA. Where people confused that they are men? Should every country do this?
since 1776 HAHAHAH
USMNT needs to remove this or just shut down
well i hope they dont shut down lol
Which American sport would Messi have played? Or Modric? These smaller athletes have always been available to US soccer, as the physical size requirements are not as extreme as American football, basketball or even baseball. In fact, for some positions smaller size can be an advantage.
Therefore this notion of other sports stealing the best athletes from soccer has always been a bit weak to me, and an excuse for US Soccer to hide behind.
It’s our system that sucks. If Messi or Maradona grew up in the US, they likely would have played soccer but would not have become world class in our system.
I don’t think you understand…these young athletes still play basketball and American football despite their size. They will have no chance of going to the NBA because they will be 5’9”, but they still choose as their main sport growing up.
@@NitroFooty I don’t think you understand. Very few athletes at 5’6 would continue with basketball or football. There has always been ample opportunity for US soccer to recruit and develop these athletes.
Also, even more fundamentally, the US men don’t lose games because of lack of athleticism. We lose because of tactical and creative deficiencies, which again are down to player development problems.
I’m not actively disagreeing with your video by the way. It actually makes your criticisms against pay to play even more valid.
Do one on Mexico please
I might!
@@NitroFooty 👀
You're spot on. Hopefully somebody in the U.S. Soccer Federation is watching.
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The reason usa will never be good is because of the basic roots of the game.You knyhow many good players yall have missed out on bc they couldn’t afford the team they are playing on?
Exactly
Is Mckennie actually doing good w Juve? Idk man. More of an American rating imo
Yes he is
I'm sure the US will get even better at soccer/football at some point, but we still have a LONG way to go lmao. Even for our standards, that 5-1 loss against Colombia was just unacceptable and there needs to be change in order for us to become a competent team. All I'm hoping for right now is that if we lose against Brazil, we can at least lose in a dignified manner lol.
At this point with this manager, we aren’t even hoping to win, just hoping to not be embarrassed
@@NitroFooty We need to at least be contenders
answer: its football
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who here after we just tied brazil 1-1. oh and one bad result doesn’t make us bad were ranked #11 on the world
I can envision at least a quarter final.
It’s not just one result but I hope we live up to that ranking!
To be fair Brazil is playing terrible, they are losing to other bad teams and in the bottom half of the World Cup qualifiers
Making the quarterfinal would be the absolute minimum. All we have to do is beat Bolivia and Panama come on
@@orgstbeaversorgst9772 If brazil top their group, then USMNT will face brazil in the quarters. When it matters however, I can't see us beating them.
In before usa fans coming in celebrating their 1-1 win with Brazil 😂
Rahhh 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
They had every right to
Could not have agreed more with you
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Sudamérica and Europe are the best in fútbol
Yes
A league where teams encourage to finish LAST? And somehow i can imagine there are clubs who called dibs/discovery rights on every human being on the planet 😂 or can you called dibs on the super draft players too? What a joke 😂
It´s not really discovery rights. It´s formation rights. So you have a very humble lower division team that has a great academy system for kids from 9 years and older. They form the kids in these lower divisions giving them not only a futbol education but also a formal schooling education. Sometimes they even give them a place to live and eat because they are from another town. These academies are almost futbol schools, and they are free for the kids. So these kids continue in the academy based on merits. They can end up with a pro contract in the team, or if they are really good they might get an international contract with a european club (star players like Endrik from Brasil). The teams invest money in these academies and they are granted a formation fee payed by the big club giving this kid a contract (a very small percentage of the value but a good amount for a small club). This formation fee is executed every time a player changes a club (and is always payed by the contracting team). So the academies importance is to discover great talents and form them into great players. I was lucky to play a whole year in the academy of my team (but obviously wasn't good and ended up studying a normal career). An example of these academies is Barcelona's famous "La Massia". Lamine Yamal (16y.o.) the great spanish star that is right now playing the Euro, has to do homework between training sessions. They are not going to sell him, but if the did, in future contracts they would receive this fee.
Dibs
hey we didnt lose to brasil
Progress!
Doubt they were trying. Try doing it against Uruguay when it matters, hopefully you can.
Well for starters, we can call it by its actual name…. Football
snowflake
In America it’s soccer. That’s it’s actual name in the United States. Football is a different sport. If you’re American, you caved, candycorn boy.
@@NitroFooty snowflake?🤣🤣 bro it’s not like the UK calls basketball, rimball or netball… I think if we as Americans want to get better at football, we should call it by its actual name.
@@daviddaj7418How is language going to change the outcome?
@@dodovolcano the way I look at it, we don’t take football as serious as we should. It might seem a tiny thing, but in reality, football culture is lacking in America and one way we can implement it is by calling the sport its actual name.
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W pipz as per usual
I wish the usa best of luck in the copa america❤
Thanks zizou
Futbol
Football
We beat Mexico!!!
That’s easy tho now!
Anyone Beats México 😂😂😂😂
Worst Mexican Side in the last 20-25 years. @@johnescobar9951
this...aged like milk left out on the counter during summer
One draw does not change my stance!
We clearly have the ability to produce players in top leagues, but that only does so much for team cohesion.
1st: No MLS garbage coaches should be allowed to manage a team of european players. So first things first we need more forward thinking leaders starting with the manager and USSF. We need a manager thats going to play a consistent style of play and start playing that way at U17, 19, 21, 23 etc. levels so when these guys step in the first team for the US there's no tactical recalibration.
2nd: USSF needs to stop being happy being comfortably #1 in CONCACAF.
Sure we win most Gold Cups and Nations leagues, but those are mickey mouse trophies and we'll end up stagnant like Mexico as a big fish in a small pond with that type of thinking.
Unless we push to be in a better confederation, I think we will always be trapped in the top 10-20 places like happened to Mexico over the last 50 years. CONCACAF provides 1 or maybe 2 (recently) tough opponents in between World Cups in competitive games. USSF should really be leading the charge to try and merge with CONMEBOL to make some sort of Pan-American federation and do more tournaments like the 16 team Copa America where we'd play Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, etc on a regular basis in World Cup Qualifying and Copa America.
Ha, this team was full of your Foreign-Leaguers and they were the WORST version of the USMNT. Karma hit you toxic USMNT fans hard. Start supporting the Domestic Leagues instead of further helping England, Italy, Germany and their leagues. Don't be a Euro-cuck.
P.S. Yeah, don't come sniffing around MLS for coaches, if you don't support MLS to begin with.
We are literally a top 8 to 12th-ish country in the world. Saying “we suck” is hugely inaccurate. We’re a good coach away from being a 5th to 8th best team in the world.
I think both of us are exaggerating to be honest
@@NitroFooty FIFA rankings have had is in the top 15 for the past two decades, often around 10th.
Anyone who takes fifa rankings seriously doesn’t understand how irrelevant they are
@@kobio1994 No ranking system is perfect, they’re the best marker we have. I’d say it’s accurate within 2-3 places for 95% of squads. Sometimes there’s an outlier that ends up being way out of place. You should watch a video that highlights how they form those rankings and then you might sing a different tune.
😂😂😂😂
I’m hopeful that the USA will win at least one World Cup in my lifetime 🇺🇸🏆
At this rate we’re gonna have to live to 140
@@NitroFooty Square that number
AI Domination is closer than USA Winning World Cup
i even have to pay to subscribe
no it’s free m8
Pay for play is the worst, my little brother just started playing for a team and the money we pay is ridiculous. We are pricing so many good kids out of the game. The inly reason he was able to play is because thankfully we have a good tight nit community and helped him out with fees but it's crazy
Facts