Colin Cowherd says England’s DEPTH exposes the U.S. soccer myth: Erling Haaland’s backup barely plays, Morgan Rogers can’t crack the lineup
Colin Cowherd breaks down why “America’s best athletes” would still lose to England, using Erling Haaland’s dominance and Morgan Rogers’ bench role as proof the U.S. is miles behind on soccer infrastructure.
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USA doesn’t dominate the region.
The craziest thing about the England team is that they left some absolutely world class players at home like TRENT ALEXANDER-ARNOLD & PHIL FODEN & COLE PALMER…
That’s how stacked England are
When the kids become obsessed they will "have a kick about" at any opportunity, in any place, before, during, after school, in the back streets, in the dirt, in the dust. Then you will find your magicians.
If you want to be even vaguely competitive you need to bring promotion and relegation into your league system. The US prefers a whole series of sports where there isn't even vague international competitiveness so in those sports you can get away with closed leagues, in football/soccer you need to force teams to be competitive by very real financial cost to not performing and financial gain for winning. Germany decided it could remove financial incentives for performance and competitiveness, and it has cost their national team dearly with absolutely no sign of a turn around. You can't expect to be competitive by sending your players off to Europe and South America etc and hoping that they'll learn to be competitive. The US does okay all things considered, but winning the world cup is hard, only 8 teams ever have; England only has once. These are not good odds, so you need every edge you can get and not having your league being seen as a well-paying retirement home for players at the end of their careers is important. An open league system, that anybody can join, and win the way to the top of will be a *huge competitive leap and help keep good US players in the US. It'll never happen, but that's what is needed – if it ever did it'd help bring in audiences too. Edit: the US probably needs maybe 3 or 4 regional league systems and an elite league above of the sort that Europe almost got a few years ago – the top 4 regionally maybe play a playoff game for promotion or something; it'd be hard to balance but something to that effect could help.. It's difficult with the US being so physically large.
Other countries have other sports as well , this idea that all other countries only focus on Football(soccer) is stupid.
This guy gets it, he understands I guarantee there is a potential American Kane, Haarland , M,Bappe, Pele,Maradona,Charlton Stanley Mathew's right now in junior school or Kindergarden in an American city but he will never get to play because he will never be able to afford the fees the soccer club charges.
I wouldn't judge to harshly beating Belgium would of only lead to Spain. Theres no let off at the late stages of the tournament.
You talk about Roger’s but look at the quality of the English players who didn’t even make it on the plane. To produce a 26 man squad that will compete at a WC you need a nation of kids playing from 5yo and a amateur and professional league structure that produces those 1 in a million superstars that can compete at the highest level.
You lost me at “ we dominate our region”🤣🤣🤣 sir: Mexico is the king of your region. Your only “glory claim” is 2-0 in 2002. Outside of that Mexico has the most Gold Cups, and Mexico is the only team in CONCACAF “your region” with:
1X Gold Medal 🥇 (Beat Brazil)
1X Confederations🏆 ( Beat Brazil)
2X U-17 World Cup 🏆 🏆Champions ( Beat Uruguay and Brazil)
10X Gold Cup
And the only team in CONCACAF to have a Copa America Finals Appearance.
It’s not even close. USA should “dominate” their region first before dreaming.
Colin sounds like someone who doesn't actually know anything about the differences in US and European soccer spouting off. He is right on some of it, because it's obvious. But there's a lot more to it. It's not about a head start Colin.
In every other country, there's a soccer ball in the crib with the newborn. It's just not the same here. It has nothing to do with athleticism.
I am British. I lived and worked in the US for 20 years. This guy is right. The US getting to the knockout stage is a great outcome. The team is improving, year on year. I do think you need a domestic relegation/promotion system of divisions to help the cream float. The unrealistic impatience of US soccer fans is not helping.
The US is ranked 17 and that seems about right to me. No one who isn't American and very biased expects them to win World Cups. If they want a stronger domestic league then they need a pyramid system. The MLS is seen in Europe as a very average league for average players or a retirement home for good players (Messi, Ibrahimovic, etc – not Americans). Reaching the last 16 is the expected level of the US from outside the US amongst people who watch international football. Maybe they go out a round earlier. Maybe they go a round further. That, though, is the realistic expectations based on the quality they have.
Almost no one outside of the US is remotely interested in the NFL. People might flick on the half time show but not the actual game. It’s a niche local sport.
Some direct comparisons can be drawn with Australia. Here the most popular football codes are Aussie rules and Rugby League. Like the NFL, no one outside of the country cares about or plays AFL. Rugby League is an international sport and Australia are by far and away the best (won 12 of 17 world cups).
However, these additional football codes take funding and the talent pool away from traditional football/soccer in both countries.
Get used to being mediocre at football/soccer because it’s not likely to change in the near future.
The biggest issue with American soccer is that you have to be rich to play as a kid. In the rest of the world it isn't like that.
How tf did I know it was Morgs? Morgs is better than everybody on that US team.
Futbol in other country is free academy free they build stars and sell them when there older ! America started that 10 years ago ! Europe has had academies for 70 years . Not every player with talent gets to play here it's expensive! So a few issues but we're headed in the rite direction in few different ways ! Also Norway hasn't been in a lot of big games but Brazil has never beat Norway so that wasn't a surprise !
The usa should send americans to play in the europe to have a better chance at the cup
If you think that's bad. Compare the Math Olympic teams, China wins almost all the time because of sheer numbers and internal competition.
It's all about economics. If you're a promising young athlete in the U. S. what are you most likely to get into? Football, baseball, or basketball where at the top level you could make tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars? Or soccer where the American pro league pays peanuts, comparatively? It's not that complicated.
ALSO: This U.S. team couldn't hold the jock of the Dempsey/Landon Donovan teams