World Cup 2014: Coach Klinsmann says U.S. can't win ... and he's right [View all]

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SportingNews.com:

Oops, he said it again.

...“I think for us now, talking about winning a World Cup is just not realistic..." U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann Klinsmann first said this in December...(N)o surprise, the...quote became a thing for media commentators...

...The United States has been serious about soccer for less than two decades...At this stage of the sport’s progression in this country, it is no more realistic to expect the U.S. to win the World Cup than to expect Stephen F. Austin to win the NCAA Tournament...

Klinsmann is not declaring his players will decline to compete as hard as possible to accomplish whatever they can while they’re alive in the World Cup. He’s saying the U.S. as a soccer nation has a ways to go...

(P)eople...should wonder why the flow of U.S.-trained players as capable as Landon Donovan and DaMarcus Beasley not only has failed to accelerate in the recent years, it has come close to shutting down. The U.S. has not performed well at a FIFA youth tournament...since Michael Bradley and Jozy Altidore excelled (in) 2007...

Hell, the U.S. had to go to Germany just to find this coach!

As for finding enough world-class American soccer players, the problem is that most of them are too busy trying to play pro football, basketball and baseball. What also needs to happen is for soccer to reach more American urban youth.


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