includes baseball, basketball and soccer
2006-07-14 07:11:48 · 18 answers · asked by Kevin 5 in Sports ➔ Olympics
i forgot hockey
2006-07-14 07:24:59 · update #1
because the usa lacks motivation. in many countries, the sport they play is the only thing they have to look to. like in venezuela and dominican republic, the only thing they have is baseball. or like in europe, they have soccer. theese people play the sports they're whole life. and they love to win. the us loves to make money, win or lose.
2006-07-14 07:18:34 · answer #1 · answered by coltsfan3874 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because only football (NFL) matters in the USA. We might have some nestalgia for baseball, but lets face it: Americans love the Super Bowl, not the World Series. And every other nation has those same feelings for another game by the same name, foot ball, aka soccer.
2006-07-14 14:17:48 · answer #2 · answered by Mick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so because we are selves are under achievers. As long as we do good their fine. Another thing is we focus to hard on the sports here and well the coaches don't always recruit the best players. I have seen guys playing basketball on the streets who are way better then some of the guys in the NBA.
2006-07-14 14:17:04 · answer #3 · answered by sportzstar_11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because international sports require too much time that americans don't have and you can't get a huge paycheck from it. Americans worship money. Also, many Americans are close minded and won't put effort or funds into sports that were created by different cultures. There's a lot of ignorance here in the US, how do you think Bush was elected?
2006-07-14 14:20:38 · answer #4 · answered by IM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soccer I understand why we lose. It is huge for the under-12 crowd, but fewer and fewer kids participate in it as they age.
Watching the Olympics was obvious why we lost in Basketball. We had 12 players playing one-on-five against the other teams. No team play, just guys trying to do it on their own.
Baseball is huge overseas. In Latin America, it is actually exceeding soccer in popularity. It is was popular in Japan, but is spreading to other countries like Korea as well. Even Australia is getting in on the act.
The US is competing against some countries where kids spend a lot of their waking hours on the diamond. Here, the kids just don't play it like they used to years ago.
2006-07-14 14:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by Jon T. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because soccer is not a sport. It is just good exercise and a fun pastime that those eurotrash losers can act pretentious about. Notice how they do not play baseball? They think anything American is lowbrow...
We may suck at soccer but our kids are not starving.
2006-07-14 14:17:02 · answer #6 · answered by damndirtyape212 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must not have watched the last 10 summer olympic games, where we are ALWAYS at the top of the medal board. and we will be again in 2008 in bejing. and let's not forget the tour de LANCE, correct me if i'm wrong but hasn't an american won the last 7 of those?
2006-07-14 18:18:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
baseball can hardly be called an international sport, and they still managed to lose that :)
2006-07-14 14:14:56 · answer #8 · answered by akg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They might be good against other Americans but when it comes to facing people from other countries they are useless.
2006-07-15 11:32:44 · answer #9 · answered by HHH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause we just through a bunch of elite players together, that have never played with each other. their egos get in the way of team chemistry. that's why.
2006-07-14 14:20:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋