Por qué el fútbol estadounidense no ha mejorado desde 1995 | La dura verdad sobre la MLS y el USMNT

50 opiniones en “Por qué el fútbol estadounidense no ha mejorado desde 1995 | La dura verdad sobre la MLS y el USMNT”

1. Where's the incentive to improve? Your truth is brutally refreshing

2. Pay to play, those that can play cannot play. The system is not looking for players it rewards those that can pay. Ronaldo Fenenomo, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Maradona, Francescoli, Valderama, Hugo Sanchez (both), Zidane, Rui Costa, Luis Figo would not have made it here, because of their economic & financial backgrounds

3. WITHOUT A MIXED PICKUP CULTURE, we're just whistling in the wind//

4. 5-0 loss against Mexico in the U-15 final!!!!! back in the early 90s. Those were the same results that could be expected when youth teams from the United States played Mexico. The only thing that has changed is the cost. The quality is still mediocre.

5. gazides is whack

6. The US will never become a footballing nation, we need to move on from that goal. It's been the sport of the future for 50+ years but the the future never comes.

7. It’s true, when you look at the academy level, there’s often a clear lack of real talent, creative decision-making, and football IQ.
   Yes, players may have strength and stamina, but that’s not enough. Physical attributes alone won’t take you far in modern football. What’s missing is the ability to identify and select the right kind of talent, the ones with vision, intelligence, and instincts.

   A great example is Xavi Simons. Just watch videos of him at U12, look at how quickly he makes decisions, how fast he moves the ball, how cleanly he receives it and keeps it flowing, and how well he plays off the ball. That’s elite-level football intelligence at a young age.
   Now ask yourself do you see anything similar in MLSucks NEXT? Do you see coaches recognizing and encouraging that kind of play? Most of the time, the focus is still on athleticism and individual physical dominance not on nurturing high-IQ, team-oriented players.

8. so true, but you aren't tell the whole truth, the USMNT is now run by 1-2 agents who select all the players and the coaches who use it to showcase and then to sell mediocre players to the 2nd tier in England and low end EPL teams like the one that so many Americans have played for (there are a few that keep picking up Americans) , the agents don't care about the USMNT they just want to make money on transfers to the championship… this is the real problem at a high level… talk about THAT

9. If I ever wanna hear somebody bitching moan, I can always tune into this channel and this guy is doing it every single time. He sounds like one of those bitches that wined that said Chelsea didn’t have a chance….

10. Damn. Eric with the mic drop on the last 30 or so years of US soccer media/punditry. He said a hard truth. He's def right. Anyone who has been around knows this. We've definitely hit a stagnation. Wish people cared enough to listen and do something. But the system works for some. They keep making money the way things are, authentic player development be damned. Everyone says Eric is negative, but he's just blunt. You can't mask it forever though. Crazy this only has 13,000 views. Next year is gonna be gross too, with all the media hype everywhere lying to the public about where we are.

11. A lack of creativity. It doesn’t seem fun to play top level system American ball. And, though debatable, I don’t think our top athletes are choosing the sport.

12. The only reason is that in the USA you think that money creates champions while in Europe we think that talent brings money

13. You are delusional. One of those ‘in my day’ guys. We have way more kids playing in Europe than ever. In ‘95 there were a handful. MLS Ne T is making a clear difference than your day when there was rec soccer and no money to be made in the US. The question is getting all of them in sync and producing for usmnt.

14. Donovan hater

15. Until the "English Mafia" is no longer in "charge" of anything administrative, or coaching above rec, "we" will never be successful.

16. It's the pay to play model

    You have a gigantic nation and population and many parents don't have $10k a year to splash on soccer.

    Make it tuition free and watch American talents soar

17. Interesting is the idea of thinning the heard. When should that start in your mind?

    It’s a fair concept but my thought was always about casting a wider net. I’d like to know more about your vision.

18. He is 1000% correct. Nothing has changed and nothing will change until the us learns how to play the game properly develop players with a real youth system (not this crap pay to play system) learn tactics and patterns of play etc and for the love of God stop calling it “soccer” 😂😂😂

19. The top line lesson from this show seems to be American capitalism ruins serious sports development. I watched a whole discussion with HOF NBA players talking about how European players are starting to surpass American ones regularly, and the US’s days as an unbeatable force in basketball were in the past, because Europeans have a much better culture of development, even in playground play, than the US. For a country that talks a big talk about merit, we sure a shit don’t actually employ it anywhere.

20. Its a shame soccer is STILL viewed as a “pussy” sport by sooooo many dads in the US. This guy and channel should have tens or hundreds of thousands of views. This is good content. The interest isnt there i dont get it

21. Question: If pay to play is so harmful to the men’s team, why has the women’s team, with players that came up in the same or similar system, been so dominant for so many years?

    Not to say that pay to play isn’t a bad thing (it is), but it seems disingenuous to make that the sole issue with the men’s team.

22. They need to use a Money Ball concept

23. half disagree. Things improved after the 1994 WC, but its gone downhill FAST in the last10 years. Pay to play/chasing rich parents has finally caught up with the USMNT. The fact that we can't even host it solo anymore says it all.

24. The real travesty is that this guy wasn't elected president of USSF. Instead, lets put economists who have never played the game!

25. So true spot on.

26. The Turkyjeej guy. Bozo.

27. He’s right. Players in the 90’s just had limited opportunities. A lot of quality players had to move on in life. Ppl forget the Nasl folded in86. 90’s players were hurt by that. Otherwise you better have access to another countries passport due to parents. 😏

28. Dude what are you talking about? 20 years ago MLS was equivalent to league 2 standard in england, now its championship level and within the next 20 years quite a few MLS teams will atleast be mid table/ lower league premier league standard. The salary caps and DP slots are the best features of MLS because it allows the academies and youth products to grow and makes the league 100% sustainable (unlike saudi arabia)

29. You doing a podcast stating the bleeding obvious ain’t going to change much either.

30. The 1994 team were mentally stronger for sure. Now… ha…ha… there are a lots of XBOX players. Thanks to the mercenary system. We need coaches/Teachers (professors) not Johnny paycheck or professional babysitters.⚽⚽⚽⚽

31. Nobody will say anything about the pink elephant in the room: US soccer will always be 💩 until they start promoting the game to black Americans. Imagine how bad the US would be at basketball without black Americans playing it.

32. Our 1994 World Cup team was really exciting and fun to watch. Waiting for our two big horses, Balboa and Lalas to explode out of the backline to arrive at the goal just in time to head in a crossing ball from midfielder Cobi Jones, which they did often. When Tony Meola charged attacking forwards like an American football linebacker going for a sack. They and their enigmatic coach, Bora, seemed to know that an American style soccer must be different than the world's where soccer is already king. In America soccer is just one of numerous sports entertainments, all competing for the public's limited entertainment dollar, and if it isn't entertaining it will wither. The last decades' USNMT and MLS play a boring game.

33. There are no players that understand teamwork. Mostly ego. Me me.

34. It strikes me that we did have one academy that produced a lot of opportunity for its players, or at least players that created opportunities: The Bradenton Academy, which was part of Project 2010. The difference between then and now is the awareness that some career steps have to be self-started. That's very likely the case at the top, but in the general culture the expectation is "they" will develop me. That's not an attitude that produces winners. It's difficult to explain, but if you go way back, you have players like Chris Sullivan and Brian Bliss who played in obscurity, but they played. Paul Caliguri was another example. All three of those men played professionally in Soviet-bloc nations because that was where they could play. They went to great lengths and made personal sacrifices. These were the immediate examples for the Project 2010 players. I'm not sure what happened then is repeatable now as the Generation Adidas program produces diminishing returns and no longer has a US focus.

35. Been preaching this since the 90's.

36. So when you’re evaluating a child that’s an athlete what vision, rubric, measuring framework do you use to predict a future star?

    I ask because you said we need to trim the fat.

    I agree with the pay to play system being stupid especially for youth sports. Like I’ve said before football and basketball is free to kids all the way up to 6th grade in most states. However, this idea of cutting players who may or may not have it I feel is a reason that we don’t find the right talent or the best talent.

    Coaches are so quick to want to win games that they don’t truly focus on development or growth.

    So, then we need to understand what a coach truly is at the youth level.

    Is a coach someone who can improve the “worst player” on a team and have him show growth over 4-5 years? Or is a coach someone who keeps all the early bloomers fits them into a system wins a lot of games but stagnates their development?

    I think the biggest issue with coach is that coaches are more like recruiters. They need to win games or it hurts their reputation and business model.

    That coach who lost all his games but didn’t hand select kids and has improved them gets called a “bad coach”. Coaches don’t want to deal with that especially if they start losing players. Also, parents don’t want their kids playing with kids who aren’t out their level yet.

    So, the deeper nuances to why there might not be enough growth is because one there is limited access to the sport via elementary schools and two because there is a high emphasis on projected the star 10 year old as a star 19 year old and cutting or not deve the potential future star sitting on the bench.

37. At what age should a player realize that he is not good enough?

38. Eric, I've reached out to you via email, I work for a NISA team in Arizona and I want your help making this sport not shit in our home

39. Don’t just dismiss our pay to play system. It gets increasingly expensive and kids are having to quit or be stuck in recreation leagues…talent doesn’t help with the fees and as another commenter said, there are piles of mediocre players with the money to keep playing, so they do. In Europe they actively look for talented kids…someone found Gareth Bale when he was 8. My point is, we will never know how many potentially talented players we miss out on because of pay to play, but more than that, we’re just not that serious about soccer…not like the rest of the world. And leave Pochettino alone. He’s a solid coach.

40. keep at it, will get there

41. Totally agree with you,sir. When I took my 5 year old son to his first practice with the local club,I understood why us soccer is behind.the coach was a dad volunteer who came to the pitch with a cowboy uniform,hat and boots and all.he knew nothing about the sport and yet we were handing him our five and six year old kids to to be taught the fundamentals at the most crucial years of learning ! Just let that sink in for a moment !
    My son is lucky that I played the game,now he’s in an academy. But what about the other kids who had no chance from the moment they joined a club ? Sad.

42. Hi Eric, bring in a relegation system for that MLS system. Clubs need to compete for their places, and bring in investment from more kit sponsors to drive the investment for the clubs int he US. It'll help many places in that country with tourism and transport.

43. Study Barcelona then make another video. You know nothing about soccer.

44. Getting tired of all these USMNT vets trying to get clicks by bitching about the current team.

45. It’s a rich kids sport in America and it most likely always will be a poor kid who’s hungry and a great athlete can’t use soccer in America to build a future for himself like he can with football, basketball, or baseball I just think we have a ceiling in this sport and it’s low unless we change

46. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Thank you for calling it like it is Mr. Wynalda, unlike your former teammate Alexi Lalas who insists of wearing his red white and blue colored glasses, and is blind to the shortcomings of the US soccer.

47. Never mind he cooked on the second part of the video.

48. in the UK kids are playing in the streets 7 days a week playing in school then local youth teams on the weekends it's in their dna, same with South Americans and Europeans,

49. Compare the US to Uruguay. They have 1% of the US population, 0.3% of our gdp, and yet their team is far better than ours and, with maybe a couple of exceptions, better than us at every position. How does that happen? You have to look at how they run their sport versus how we run ours. We do it all wrong. Eric has hit on a lot of it.

50. You need to do some long term things. I think ye need to have a proper league. You need a divisional system like everywhere else with proper second, third and maybe fourth tiers. You must have relegation and promotion every year. There must be risk. You also have to get rid of the playoffs. It's fake. If you want to turn it into an end of year tournament, fine, but whoever finishes top of the league triangle is the league champion. No one else. Reward consistent excellence. You also need to get rid of the draft. Clubs should have youth systems. If you're not playing top flight football by the time you're 20 then you're, typically, not gonna be a world class player. Look at all the big names in football, I guarantee you scouts were talking about them since their early teens. Where are your future stars when they are 16/17? Getting ready for prom? They should be at a big club with all that comes with that. It's a massive sacrifice but that's the life. And you need to stop bringing in 35+ year olds. They're only there for a pension top up. .. but get a youth system going now. It will take a generation but it will pay off. Forget schools and colleges. It's not working for football.

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