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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5099599, member: 5685"]
We also need to take into account the size of our country. Sure our best athletes might not play soccer, but the US is the same size as Europe minus the Soviet Union and Turkey. There still should be plenty of athletes around to field a better team than we have been.

On top of that we have great training facilities and nutrition programs. Our athleticism should never be a problem. It is the skill and IQ where we lack. A big part of that is development, which I think we have been doing a much much better job of. IMO though a part of that is also our level of competition in CONCACAF. It would stink for travel but I rather see the US join CONMEBOL or even UEFA (Champions League for MLS).

BTW Herculez Gomez was making fun of UEFA for having non big name countries win the EURO, and Italy not making the WC. The arrogance is amazing. UEFA has won 4 of the last 5 WCs with 4 different winners, 8 of the last 10 WC finalists with 6 different countries, and 15 of the last 20 WC semifinalists with 9 different countries. And that is who is is making fun of?

Meanwhile a CONCACAF team has not made a WC semi since the first WC. Only Oceania is worse. Everyone else has a semifinalists in the 2000s. Just qualifying from UEFA is a gantlet, while the US basically has a free pass to the WC every 4 years and still failed to make it in 2018.
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