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    Ouch. Penn State 2027 Recruiting Decline?

    This reads a lot like Tyrese Hunter doing the Horns Up in front of Johnny Orr I do remember Cooper having a tit for tat on Twitter with some ISU fans after they started chirping him. After that, I don’t recall any player saying anything negative about ISU
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    None of those players are from the same country though.
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    The Odyssey trailer 2 (full trailer)

    Plenty of faux outrage to go around. On all sides.
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    Excluding football, the only sports invented here are basketball and volleyball. Baseball originated in England but was popularized here. There are many sports that weren’t invented/popularized here that the U.S. is still one of the best 3 countries (if not the best) in: hockey, golf, track...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    Just going to keep reposting this to combat this narrative. Are American youth sports a mess, yes. Is it the reason we aren’t competitive in soccer, no. Are we still the best country for all-around sports. Yes. By a mile. Excluding football, the only sports invented in America are basketball...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    True. I just don’t think those kids are choosing soccer as their sport.
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    I have my doubts on the last two paragraphs but would be cool if true. I don’t follow high school recruiting that closely, but I haven’t seen a 5-star football or basketball player opt to play soccer instead. I really thought there would be substantial movement in U.S. soccer after the momentum...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    We didn’t invent hockey, or golf, or track and field, or gymnastics, or women’s soccer. Baseball is rooted from England. We’re still one of the best countries in all those sports. I would argue the rest of the world has barely caught up to us in basketball. We still dominate international...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    Yep! Exactly what I’ve been saying. The real crux is what @jmb outlined above. Culturally, soccer is not important to us relative to Europe and SA. It’s not how our youth development program is structured per se (although I agree across all sports it’s FUBAR). It’s that we don’t really care...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    Excluding football, the only sports invented in America are basketball and volleyball. Basketball: men won 17 of the 21 golds in the Olympics including the last 4. Women have won 10 of 13. Neither team has not medaled in an Olympics. Baseball: Has one gold and two runner-ups in the last 3...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    It’s easier to say an external factor, “the youth development program is the main issue”, than it is to admit an intrinsic factor, our culture, is the main thing holding American soccer back.
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    He makes some good points. The question I’d ask him then, is why is America extremely successful in every other sport with the exact same youth development setup as soccer (including women’s soccer)? All American youth sports operate the same way as soccer.
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    I might have been the one to start here and then you jumped 10 steps and said you don’t need to be an athlete to be elite at soccer, you can be taught all that stuff. I don’t disagree that there are big skill and training gaps between us and Europe, or even with the idiocy of the U.S’ youth...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    You’re mistaking improving on those areas to being “taught”. S&C coaches can maximize your potential. They can’t teach you speed or elite hand eye coordination.
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    You can improve your endurance through training. But I’ll never have as much endurance as a Kenyan 10000-meterer, no matter how much training and resources I put into it. Size doesn’t equal athleticism. I know people who are huge, who would trip over their own feet if they moved faster than a...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    Yep, and the best women’s golfer is American. We have by far and away the best women’s soccer and basketball programs. Softball too. Our women’s volleyball team has medaled in every Olympics but 2 since 1984. We dominate women’s sand volleyball. If the desire was there culturally, we’d dominate...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    I disagree. You need good athleticism to be an elite soccer player. You need excellent foot-eye coordination, agility, speed, endurance. Those are all athletic traits. Like any sport, to truly excel you need more than just athleticism, but the baseline is being a great athlete. You can’t just...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    But the U.S.’ best women’s athletes are going into soccer at a much higher rate than the best U.S. men’s athletes. That, to me, is why the U.S. isn’t competitive. It’s cultural more than anything. I would also argue all youth sports are crazy expensive. Not exclusive to soccer. But I don’t...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    I agree to a degree. But I think the primary issue is the kids that have this skill, have already moved onto another sport in the U.S. by ages 10. Not because we don’t have the athletes. Kind of a chicken/egg type thing. Part of the reason the U.S. doesn’t have the developmental resources...
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    ***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

    I agree with this as well
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