The US was actually able to beat a tiny Caribbean island nation in a soccer game! They managed to beat something called St. Vincent and the Grenadine, which is apparently a country. But baby steps, first beat a nation the size of Duluth, then the sky's the limit from there!

Uhhhhhh so apparently USA#37 lost to Guatemala? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And probably won't even qualify for the World Cup? lolololol! Guatemala was ranked like 100 by FIFA and Elo ratings. If we lose to Guatemala again this thing is ova and we won't have to put up with another World Cup for like 6 more years minimum.

Oh, and its even more hilarious because the US actually got the easiest possible group. And is struggling mightily to get out of it. But hey we beat something called St. Vincent and the Grenadine. Is that a band or a country??? No idea.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...ying/82285806/

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Is it next cycle yet????

Does losing to Guatemala in an important match count?

Fwiw you should largely ignore the international rankings. Belgium at number one and Italy in fourteenth is enough said.

Elo ratings are pretty good, right? Guatemala was like 91 before this win

Elo rankings are

1. Germany
2. Argentina
3. Brazil
4. Spain
5. England
6. Columbia
7. France
8. Uruguay
9. Chili
10. Belgium
11. Mexico
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37. lol USA#37
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81. Guatamala GOAT

With ikes gone and USA#37 not in the World Cup, this thread is just gonna be Keed trolling an empty room.

That's pretty much been what it's been all along. I like to think even when Ikes is banned he'll still know when this thread is bumped and still get trolled by SK.

I've never looked into the Elo rankings. I was thinking of the FIFA rankings, which are a complete joke because lol FIFA.

Well one thing that pretty much all the rankings seem to agree on is

MLS getting more popular every year, tho.

Yeah soon they'll have to raise the salary cap to 3 million dollars

They had soccer on at the gym and US was up vs. Guatemala 3-0! It was a good pairing bc I was getting my exercise jogging on the treadmill and all the gentlemen playing also seemed to be getting some good exercise in, so it was very healthy for everyone involved.

I am sure it has been pointed out to you several times that if the best athletes in the US played soccer(futbol) and took soccer as serious as other countries, we without a doubt would be #1 in the world ainec. Our best athletes are playing football, basketball, and baseball.

Just see our woman's team for proof of that. Other than more specialized sports like golf and tennis, women really only have two options for sports post college, which are basketball and soccer. A good portion of our best woman athletes play soccer and we are the #1 ranked women's team in the world as a result.

Just imagine if Lebron James played soccer as a 6'9" forward with his speed and athletic ability! He would be dominant in the air. Take some of our basketball players, our running backs and defensive backs in the NFL, and add a few top notch baseball players, and start them at age 5 in soccer. Then have them pretty much only play soccer growing up, like most players from other countries, and we would be #1 in the world in men's soccer as well.

All in all we are not doing too bad with our fringe athletes, in a sport most in the US could care less about, by at least competing on the national level and qualifying for the World Cup and Olympics most of the time now. How is your Football, Baseball, and Basketball team doing nationally?

It is so funny to have other soccer dominant countries try to criticize USA soccer. Shows a real lack of knowledge as to the reasons why our team is what it is.

Yeah but we aren't number 1 so the hypothetical is meaningless.

Yeah if you took a bunch of NBA guards and NFL corners/WRs I'll bet you could get a world class soccer team after a couple of years of training. I mean I'm not suggesting they stop playing real sports, but it is certainly possible if the felt like it.

Yes, but so are the demeaning comments people from other 'soccer' countries throw out all of the time about the US team.

Right, they have to understand that the US soccer team is basically a JV team composed of people not athletic enough to make the (real) football team in high school. Under no stretch of the imagination could you characterize it as the best that USA#1 has to offer

Unfortunately, not when they can make 5mil to 20mil per year in a sport that is easier for them to reach the pro level, and stay on US soil as well. An NBA center that make not even be a starter or splits minutes with someone else, that plays 20 minutes a game and averages 8 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 blocks per game is making 10mil a year now in the NBA. Ridic.....

Agreed

Ummm, thread title is misleading...pretty sure it should read:

" LOL Soccer"

And just so the America haters know? While soccer is popular amongst the 5-10 year old crowd, it is soon forgotten about when the kiddies realize how incredibly boring the sport really is.

Its a kiddie sport in USA. Only used as a inexpensive keep-the-kids-outta-our-hair and keep-em-non-fat, atheletic evaluation technique that armchair quarterback parents are taking advantage of b4 the child gets too old. "Should we get him/her focused on books, or is this little **** worth wasting time on pushing him/her in another sport in hopes for the mirrions and fame down then line?"

Also, its really just looked at as a womans game at the professional level for the most part obv...

Good day "mates"

Ah here we go again, the good old "If our NBA Mutants played football we'd be worth a dime in the #1 World Sport" narrative.

I hate to break it to you, mate, but Americans suck at football by nature of their American birth. Nothing you can do about it, not even being a mutant.

Labron is probably too big to be a forward but I bet he'd be a pretty good goalie. But guys like Steph Curry or Russell Westbrook or Allen Iverson would have been elite soccerers I think. Or like you think Dion Sanders could have been a good soccer player? Basically any NFL cornerback would have been elite had they played soccer growing up. Instead we have some bald white dude who exercises better than anyone in the world cup but manages to blow games in situations like this



You think Allen Iverson would have blown the game there? LOL NO

Like this dude is the best that American soccer currently has to offer



ELITE ATHLETE

I wonder if this dude might have been better at soccer than that fat guy or the bald white exerciser guy?