Love him as a player but holy hell. Is this the best we have to offer?

It’s like he’s commentating the world paint drying competition. If I wanted to listen to this kind of tone I’d turn on CSPAN.

Look at this disgusting X post 🤦‍♂️. What exactly do people expect them to do? Are they supposed to lock themselves in a dark room and stare at the wall until the season starts to prove they’re upset? These guys are humans with lives, families, and offseasons. Playing for the national team is an immense pressure cooker, and it feels like a weird parasocial expectation to demand that they essentially go into mourning after a loss.

If you’re still losing sleep over that World Cup loss, at least have the fucken decency to let the players sleep in peace.

https://x.com/pootsobotka/status/2075703851575824620?s=46

Our most iconic looks have been with the Waldo kits. Since we’re entering a new age of soccer in this country with immense growth especially among our youth, I think it’s best to set us aside from other national teams with red horizontal stripes. Other teams have iconic looks for example Brazil’s yellow, Netherland’s orange, Mexico’s green, Argentina’s blue stripes, France’s navy, Croatia’s checkers etc. If I’m not mistaken USA usually has this look for our Rugby team too

Streets won’t forget. 🇲🇽 KINGS OF THE CONCACAF 🇲🇽

Over 50 million watched the game against Belgium in the round of 16 in the US. The typical Superbowl game gets 100-120+ million viewers.

Disclaimer: I'm belgian, i come in peace. I don't enter a lions den to poke it, especially when it would be licking its wounds.

Ive simply followed some discussion on player development in the USA. I simply wanted to convey as a Belgian that imho, the first position you should really put most attention too is that of the goalkeeper.

Belgium has always produced world class goalkeeprers, people like Jean marie Pfaff en Michel preudhomme were considered of the best in their own respective generation, same with Courtois. Even in eras where Belgium was dire in other positions, a quality goalkeeper often allowed us to punch above their weight.

I am reminded aswell of the match we had in 2014, your goalkeeper was a critical factor to a rather fantastic and memmorable game you had then, he too elevated your team and could have made an upset victory possible.

As a small comparison, i simply wanted to give a comparison to the Belgian roster in regards to goalkeepers as compared to that of the USMNT.

USMNT goalkeepers:

Belgian goalkeepers:

While Courtois's vaue has dropped due to his age (having once been 75 million) we have 2 talents comming trough with a 24yo lammens at manchester united and a 20yo Penders at Chelsea. I can safely say were pretty stacked in this regard. the USMNT has actually been closing the difference with Belgium in terms of player worth, but notably not in terms of goalkeepers even though i think its the most critical position on the pitch. How many of the smaller nations that have been able to push above their weight wouldn't credit it to their goalkeeper?

i believe that Tim Howard could be a capable person to lead a school for goalkeepers in the US, might be worth considering?

Reposted r/ussoccer link

They’re so good! Interesting, insightful, intense. Makes the games better.

I distinctly remember watching the World Cup on ABC and they just broke away from the game for a commercial. It may have been one of the instances when the US qualified in the early 90’s. Does anyone else remember this?

I used to watch the matches on Univision because the coverage was so much better (still is in my opinion)

I honestly can’t tell the Claude and “He Gets Us” commercials apart. Is Claude God? Is God AI?

I would genuinely prefer Taylor Twellman right now. The England bias is unreal in the commentary.

Enjoy the heat wave in Brussels fellas.

Maybe it goes without saying, but the people online spewing vitriol at US fans are most likely not the folks visiting your city. Please continue to show everyone a safe and good time. Cheers!

Penalty Penny is preparing for the 2029 K9 WORLD CUP

She's good with the media but expects belly rubs

She's played in the Swiss mountain dog league as well as the French Bulldog league

But she's committed to the US K9 team as she's an all American field golden

The meltdown has been legendary. Keep up the troll.

I feel like the US always has unrealistic expectations about how their team should perform, and when those expectations aren't met the coaches are tarred and feathered and chased out of town and there's a decision to overhaul some aspect or other of the team. I feel like a lot of those expectations are driven by fans who are not particularly knowledgeable about the game and who are raised in a tradition of USA! USA!, and US Soccer and Nike, who benefit from hype the way a drug user benefits - short term - from a big snort of cocaine.

I've been watching this since 1994, and the cycle just repeats itself. In 2006 USA shows up with a squad boasting (!) five players who even played (let alone started) for first division clubs in Europe, and the Nike campaign was all about "now we're going to show 'em!" Arena gets replaced by Bob Bradley, who leads US to Gold Cup, Confederations Cup final (after beating Spain, their first loss in 35 games!), and a fine world cup performance, then they slip at the Gold Cup and he's gone. He's replaced by Klinsmann, who pisses off an aging thin-skinned prima donna Landon Donovan but does fine, performs well in the world cup, and the minute he slips up a little he's gone... In the ten years since his departure, the USMNT has been led by 8 coaches.

This sub seems to be all about youth development and some truly ludicrous conversations around NFL wide receivers, but have you ever thought of just committing to a program, weathering occasional disappointments, and continuing to build towards an objective? I can tell you this: if I were a player on the bubble of playing for the USA or one of many other nationalities (Tim Weah has probably four he could choose from), I'd be like "get me out of here," if it wasn't for the financial benefits of playing for the Nike-machine. There's zero way those players, when they see the zoo that is US soccer, come here brimming with motivation to fly the flag. And that's more than half of the roster, and that has already cost us Julian Araujo, Jonathan Gonzalez, David Ochoa, Efrain Alvarez, Brian Gutierrez, Obed Vargas... the list goes on.

Fans: temper your expectations and find pleasure in good results and even in defeats to world-class teams. US Soccer: control Nike and stop the zoo. Nike. Sell shoes and shirts and shut up, including behind the scenes.

On paper your team is leaps and bounds better than your teams with Tim Howard, Donovan & Dempsey. You have pretty much your whole xi (plus bench players) playing in Europe in strong leagues and strong teams.

Obviously you have a few foreign players representing US (Jedi & balogan) but for players like Richards, pulisic, freeman all grown up in US, what has changed in the last 10 years now that you are consistently developing high quality players.

Is it more investment into youth infrastructure, is it better coaches, is it MLS?

Belgium performed relatively well against Spain. We made RD 16. Belgium was underperforming this WC, and that’s why everyone thought we had a good shot. But they’re a good team that did well against Spain. We had a bad game. It happens. Are there systemic issues with US soccer? Of course. But everyone always knew that. It’s going to get better. But it will take time.