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Originally Posted by awval999
if the usa government had a "JFK go to the moon" promise to win the world cup could we do it?
we would subsidize usa professional soccer players, ie: would pay the national team members $50MM/year, pay espn lots of money to televise it on prime time, etc would we have a chance in a generation to win it?
it seems that we value other sports more and that's why our national team (with a pool of 150 million men) is never world-class. thoughts?
as mw said, it would probably take more than a generation to pull it off. We'd have to change the entire infrastructure of US Soccer(which i'd have no problem with tbh) and drastically improve coaching at all levels (this is the 1st thing that needs to be done in general. I wish the USSF would make a directive about it)
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Originally Posted by CloseTheBorder
A multi-tier system is key for improving, obviously the U.S is huge but you could have a lower tier under each conference at the moment. Having another 10-20 teams driving to get into the top league makes everyone play better.
Once the MLS gets to 20 teams, I wish they'd stop expanding that part and work towards getting MLS2 started. I know some people have said that Americans won't accept it, but the people following the MLS and soccer fans are more than familiar with it. It would need to be implemented sooner rather than later, but I don't think it would be that much of a stretch for teh MLS to just buy up some of the lower leagues, re-structure it, and make it viable.
It would be a longer term view and would have to be 8-10 years down the road. I think it can be doable and japan was able to add an official 2nd tier very successfully after having just a top division for a while.