The kids growing up now are the first generation of Americans who have as a group grown up with parents who played the game. That means we're finally starting to coach the kids reasonably.
A country with as many people as this, most of whom are well fed and have plenty of spare time, will ultimately field a top team in virtually any sport once the population has had a few years to be interested in that sport. Its a question of demographics.
Its like Rudi G. used to say: "This is a big city. Anything with a one in a million chance happens six times a day here."
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 07:40:15 PM On
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4 - Another flawed computer ranking... I'm American and proudly support US Soccer but I know that Germany, England and Portugal (all ranked lower) would beat us 4 out of 5 games played. We're getting there though and agree with Andrew's comments above.
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Posted by Richard Tyler At 11:00:10 AM On 07/08/2004 | - Website - |
The kids growing up now are the first generation of Americans who have as a group grown up with parents who played the game. That means we're finally starting to coach the kids reasonably.
A country with as many people as this, most of whom are well fed and have plenty of spare time, will ultimately field a top team in virtually any sport once the population has had a few years to be interested in that sport. Its a question of demographics.
Its like Rudi G. used to say: "This is a big city. Anything with a one in a million chance happens six times a day here."
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 07:40:15 PM On 07/09/2004 | - Website - |
Posted by John Young At 10:54:21 PM On 07/11/2004 | - Website - |