Swamp Fox;387620 wrote:If it were baseball or basketball or "American" football, the choice would be simple. Those three sports sort of belong to the US. As much as we have tried and as excited as many have gotten over American soccer, the sport just doesn't seem to have ever really caught on in this country. I know all about the thousands of soccer facilities opening around the country and so forth and so on, but the bottom line says that the effort has, on an international scale, been pretty much a bust. If we win, it's almost always considered an upset and how many years do we continue to use the fact that soccer is somehow new in this country. It is no longer new. We just aren't very good at it despite the best efforts of many who hope that we will become this huge soccer power. I just don't think it's ever really going to happen. As far as the England-US match is concerned, I'll go with a 1-0 England victory and there-in is the other huge problem. The game moves too slowly for us and the scoreboard hardly ever has to have bulbs replaced due to massive scoring. I'd really like to see the US win. I always root for the American team, but some things just weren't meant to be. Soccer is an English game, not an American game.
I think you do have to consider the fact that soccer isn't our national sport when considering the U.S. lack of success. Most of the countries in the WC have maybe 1-2 sports, and their best athletes are playing soccer. Could you imagine how successful the U.S. could be if we had our best athletes playing soccer instead of NFL/NBA? We just have to many freaking choices.
