US Soccer Using "Foreigners"

Do marathon runners grab, pull, run into and hit one another? "Accidentally" kick each other in the shins?

That is news to me.

 

I assume you grew up in LA? The rest of the USA was very different. Here in TN there were almost NO soccer leagues until 10-15 years ago. Sure, there was the AYSO here and there, but I can tell you 90% of kids where not playing it.

 

Marathon runners don't (normally) have people trying to tackle them while they're running... I do have respect for guys like Scott Jurek that run 100+ mile races regularly. I have a friend who led a group of bicyclists on a 45 day ride across the U.S. it was a series of 100+ mile rides every day, with a very few rest days built in. She wrote a book about it and it's pretty fascinating reading...

 

The national youth participation rates were very high and have been for decades.

 

Where I grew up we barely knew what it was.

 

Well that wasn't true in the rest of the country. Now people stopped playing at 10 though

 

We had a league and it folded when I was 8 or 9. I was terrible, but I played.

I do chuckle at people who run it down. Almost like we will become Europe because we play soccer.

 

Best defensive shortstop I've ever played against in baseball or softball was a gay dancer. Dude could cover the entire left side of the field in about three steps. Ran on his toes line he was on the stage.

 

I wish we'd had it. I'd have been good.

 

We've got Obama for that

 

I swear 80% of the boys in my elementary school classes played rec soccer in Johnson City. This was 20 years ago. Maybe JC is an anomaly, but I'd doubt it.

 

To the original topic, Mix Diskerud responded well:http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/12/mix...bachs-criticism-of-usmnt-playing-foreign-guys

 

Sugar Ray Robinson was a dancer.

 

Where the hell did you grow up?

 

Gibson County, Tennessee.

 

Listen to the podcast. She's really full of shiz.

 

"the decision to end the pay gap between men and women in soccer wouldn't cost anything."

Huh?

 

I don't know anything about Gibson County and I'm not one to diss on a location, but soccer was prevalent where I grew up in West "by God" Virginia. So it would stand to reason that it should be prevalent pretty much anywhere.

 

I have no idea what she's trying to say there, other than, if she's saying that she should get paid the same as men, then she's out of her [dadgum] mind. There's this whole set of USA women's soccer fans that are sort of Lady Vol-fanish when it comes to the men's vs. women's stuff. I felt that the women did have a good point on the surface of the World Cup this past summer, but their talk gets out of hand sometimes. And, let's be clear about this, the USA women's team doesn well because 95% of the world doesn't give two shits about women's soccer or just women, in general. The German men's team plays the #75 team in the world and they probably get a decent game. The US women play the #50 team and it's 9-0.

 

It wasn't. I think there was probably a league in Jackson, but it wasn't something very many people did