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[EliCash]

The Manu chant is awesome. Basketball with football like atmosphere is the future. Also, terrible call.

 

[Gorillaz]

Jesus Christ...the fouls in the basketball game are so unbelievable. Whistle happy refs

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

Argentina not lying down

 

[sixghost]

Probably , anyway I still do not get why U.S. has great women football team and they suck in the mens one...I am pretty sure mens gets more money and support.

Tons of men and women play organized football when they are kids, but the elite male athletes in America start to gravitate to American Football, Baseball and Basketball around the time they go to high school, because those are the sports they grow up watching, and that's where all the money is for professional athletes in this country.

Women's Football doesn't face as stiff of competition from those sports because there really isn't that much money in any female sports, so women's football keeps more of the elite athletes.

 

[CrunchinJelly]

COME ON ARG!

 

[masud]

I'd be into MLS if my city's team wasn't named after an energy drink.

 

[linsivvi]

That's a world class flop. Manu still has it!

 

[Nekki]

2nd quarter one point down, not bad!!!

 

[Solo]

Probably , anyway I still do not get why U.S. has great women football team and they suck in the mens one...I am pretty sure mens gets more money and support.

Canada has the same affliction. Our women's soccer team just almost got to the gold medal game and our women's basketball team is in the quarterfinals.

Our men's teams in both sports? LULZ. Men's soccer in Canada is an embarrassment and has been for years. Basketball isn't much better. Neither even qualified for the Olympics. Boys in this country gravitate to hockey, baseball, and even football over basketball and soccer for whatever reason.

 

[Soyongdori]

Argentina vs. USA is starting to make me believe that NBA is overrated.

 

[The Frankman]

FLOP SO HARD

Fucking Ginobili. I hope flops get called techs next season.

 

[vas_a_morir]

Argentina not lying down

Yeah they are... and getting the call every time they do.

 

[Talon]

I think MLS is much bigger than the NHL now...hockey is far more of a fringe sport really (in part due to the large number of Latinos who immigrate here from other countries). Both are a ways behind NCAAF and NCAABB though and the obvious Big 3.

League is not profitable, and the ratings are hilariously low. 2/3 of the team are in the red year by year.

 

[Regulus Tera]

This.

Football/soccer is huge at the youth levels in the US. But once you get into secondary school, most guys drop soccer and move into one of the more mainstream sports, while women remain playing soccer or basketball.

USA's youth football/soccer doesn't exactly perform with accolades in the international youth tournaments either. The problem is cultural.

 

[El Sloth]

I'd be into MLS if my city's team wasn't named after an energy drink.

I jus imagine the mythical red bull is an animal from an old Native American origin story. Makes things way better.

 

[Brazil]

lmao at the "Dilma, show Merkel how to do it" sign in the Volleyball match.

 

[Shadow780]

Defense, how to play it?

 

[masud]

Argentina vs. USA is starting to make me believe that NBA is overrated.

Overrated by who? The US is clearly the best in the world but Argentina is definitely good enough to play with them for one game. Manu is one of the best players on the court, Argentina just blew out Lithuania a couple of days ago ffs. Nobody that knows basketball is expecting the US to win every game by huge margins, those days are over.

 

[Alebrije]

Canada has the same affliction. Our women's soccer team just almost got to the gold medal game and our women's basketball team is in the quarterfinals.

Our men's teams in both sports? LULZ. Men's soccer in Canada is an embarrassment and has been for years. Basketball isn't much better. Neither even qualified for the Olympics. Boys in this country gravitate to hockey, baseball, and even football over basketball and soccer for whatever reason.

Yea , in the 80´s Canada men´s team was better tha U.S. I remember the goalkeeper used to put a tedy bear near him in the World Cup matchs.

Well I n Canada there are tons of latinos so you can get better players in the future.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Overrated by who? The US is clearly the best in the world but Argentina is definitely good enough to play with them for one game. Manu is one of the best players on the court, Argentina just blew out Lithuania a couple of days ago ffs. Nobody that knows basketball is expecting the US to win every game by huge margins, those days are over.

Aren't Argentina and Spain's best players playing in the NBA anyway?

 

[Snakeyes]

Hopefully Team Canada will start investing in referees a bit more from now on.

 

[masud]

Aren't Argentina and Spain's best players playing in the NBA anyway?

Their entire starting line ups play in the NBA. And the rest of them could all make the NBA as average players but they get payed more in Europe to be stars.

 

[The Frankman]

FLOP SO HARD

US needs to be careful or Manu and Argentina will flop out their whole starting lineup.

 

[twinturbo2]

Gimme the lotto numbers too while you are at it.

Trade secret.

 

[JABEE]

The NHL is a lot more popular than the MLS
in North America.

 

[linsivvi]

Aren't Argentina and Spain's best players playing in the NBA anyway?

Argentina's best player has more NBA championships than all the players on team USA combined, sans Kobe.

 

[weekend_warrior]

 

[Talon]

Aren't Argentina and Spain's best players playing in the NBA anyway?

Actually, two of Spain's best players couldn't get playing time in the NBA and went back to La Liga. Scola and Ginobli are the only Argentinians playing in the NBA with regularity.

Granted, Ginobli's been one of the great 2 guards in the league for most of this decade.

 

[fuenf]

The USA will always have trouble in men's football. That stupid highschool / NCAA system just doesnt fly in world class football. As long as that system is in place they'll have a tough time catching up.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

USA's youth football/soccer doesn't exactly perform with accolades in the international youth tournaments either. The problem is cultural.

By youth I mean 6-11 years old. But yeah, I agree they're is a cultural problem that's holding us back in football.

 

[Solo]

What a cutting piece of pie chart.

 

[Monroeski]

USA's youth football/soccer doesn't exactly perform with accolades in the international youth tournaments either. The problem is cultural.

Do they have many international soccer tournaments for 12 year olds? That's about the oldest you get in the US (in Texas, at least) before male soccer participation takes a dive off a cliff due to kids in 7th grade being able to play football for their schools instead of a separate league (read: for free for their schools instead of paying for equipment and to get into a private league). Aren't most international youth tournaments more in the "age 18 and under" category? By then gridiron football and basketball have already turned the American soccer talent pool into a desiccated husk.

 

[zedge]

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Haven't we had enough of this already? Canadian fans have every right to be a bit upset over some of the calls and ultimately the outcome. Congrats US anyway.

 

[Alebrije]

WHERE IS THE MAPLE SYRUP ???? fail...

 

[sixghost]

USA's youth football/soccer doesn't exactly perform with accolades in the international youth tournaments either. The problem is cultural.

Youth soccer really is awful here. Unless you play for some kind of select team that travels all over the place, coaching is almost non-existent. I played my entire life on decent teams and it wasn't until I started watching european leagues that I even learned what tactics were.

 

[Clydefrog]

Isn't MLS on the rise?

yeah but the US men's under-23 team couldn't even qualify for these Olympics

dat not-so-bright bright future

 

[Psychotext]

Haven't we had enough of this already?

Thanks to this thread I can see "salt" becoming a banned term soon enough.

 

[Heretic]

Lol! stealing this!

 

[darscot]

Canada has the same affliction. Our women's soccer team just almost got to the gold medal game and our women's basketball team is in the quarterfinals.

Our men's teams in both sports? LULZ. Men's soccer in Canada is an embarrassment and has been for years. Basketball isn't much better. Neither even qualified for the Olympics. Boys in this country gravitate to hockey, baseball, and even football over basketball and soccer for whatever reason.

I don't think it's embarrassing at all, in Canada soccer is a girls game and are women are very respectable. Why would you expect are men to be good at it when no one plays it with any seriousness.

 

[fuenf]

yeah but the US men's under-23 team couldn't even qualify for these Olympics

dat not-so-bright bright future

Do the MLS clubs have youth teams?

 

[Meier]

yeah but the US men's under-23 team couldn't even qualify for these Olympics

dat not-so-bright bright future

It's hard to convince a talented young athlete to stick to soccer when he sees that the only guys making more than $300k per year in the MLS are foreign players at the end of their careers that are too old to succeed in Europe any more. Hopefully some day the MLS gets large enough that the guys can get paid a wage that is at least relatively comparable to most other countries' top flight leagues.

Do the MLS teams have youth teams?

There are a number of levels in the football pyramid in the US and some of the MLS teams have youth/reserve teams performing in those lower leagues. My home town has a team in the 2nd level of the pyramid (Orlando City) and they have a U-23 team who plays in the 4th level. They just won a championship in the 4th level (beat my local team Austin Aztex) to get there.

 

[Steelrain]

Thanks to this thread I can see "salt" becoming a banned term soon enough.

It's ok. There are many alternatives.

 

[Solo]

Thanks to this thread I can see "salt" becoming a banned term soon enough.

Apparently you've never entered NHL GAF, where salt is in large supply, as are homoerotic undertones and box stretching.

 

[El Sloth]

Thanks to this thread I can see "salt" becoming a banned term soon enough.

I blame fighting games.

I blame raffles.

 

[Heretic]

yeah but the US men's under-23 team couldn't even qualify for these Olympics

dat not-so-bright bright future

Which Canada had a hand in doing. Women defending our men!

 

[The Frankman]

LeBron/Durantula Mode ACTIVATE

 

[Nesotenso]

It's hard to convince a talented young athlete to stick to soccer when he sees that the only guys making more than $500k per year in the MLS are foreign players at the end of their careers that are too old to succeed in Europe any more. Hopefully some day the MLS gets large enough that the guys can get paid a wage that is at least relatively comparable to most other countries' top flight leagues.

MLS needs better TV ratings. Selling out stadiums is fine but that's not where the money is.

 

[Psychotext]

Apparently you've never entered NHL GAF, where salt is in large supply, as are homoerotic undertones and box stretching.

Truth... though it sounds strangely appealing...

 

[everyday math]

Didn't take long for USA mens basketball to start pulling away.

 

[Jhoan]

LTTP on this, but reading about Sanchez winning gold in the hurdles has made my day. Now I eagerly await the recap/Youtube videos and hope that the Dominican Republic beats the U.S. in volley ball. That is all.