When will the USA participate in the greatest game on earth?

Question

At world class level.Or is Soccer too fast a game for you.Would you rather keep with the girlie game of Baseball.Really most of the World play Soccer.

I am aware or your participation but its 3rd dividion stuff.Then most of the players are European,avg age 32.Its hardly compeitive is it.

Answer 1

What are you talking about...USA participates in soccer at world level. They have qualified for the FIFA World Cup almost everytime and are the best North American Outfit...

Facts:
USA Mens ranking; 29th which is higher then most European/African/South American teams where soccer is the national sport

USA Womens ranking: 1st in the World

MLS, American major soccer league is among the world's best, which has attracted stars like Bekham

As the governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, U.S. Soccer has helped chart the course for the sport in the USA for more than 90 years. In this time, the Federation’s mission statement has been very simple and very clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels.

To that end, the sports growth in the past two decades has been nothing short of remarkable. In 1989, the U.S. Men's National Team hadn't played in a World Cup in 40 years and the U.S. Women's program was just four years old. U.S. Soccer was playing games in small stadiums that were rarely filled to capacity. There were few games being televised (and none without commercials during play). There were no soccer-specific stadiums, and there were no high-level professional outdoor leagues of which to speak.

Since that time, things have evolved significantly. The U.S. MNT has qualified for their fifth consecutive World Cup, and advanced to the quarterfinals at the 2002 event. U.S. Soccer is a world leader in women’s soccer at every level, and the team has won two Women's World Cups, along with two Olympic Gold Medals. The United States has also hosted three World Cups with the support of its members and strong organizational abilities.

Professionally, Major League Soccer recently celebrated its tenth season of play and continues to further the development of the American player, along with the three-tiered developmental league, the United Soccer Leagues. Perhaps most importantly of all, though, no fewer than five major soccer specific stadiums are in place now coast-to-coast with more facilities en route.

Founded in 1913, U.S. Soccer is one of the world’s first organizations to be affiliated with FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer’s world governing body. U.S. Soccer has continued to grow in the 90-plus years since, and now has the largest membership among U.S. Olympic Committee national governing bodies.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT...

Answer 2

In case you haven't noticed, the USA has been to all of the last 5 world cup tournaments, and have already reached the quarterfinals. Wake up. McBride, Beasley, Keller, Freidal, Howard, Onyewu, Convey, Bocanegra, etc. etc. are just a few of the Americans now playing on some of the best teams in Europe.

Response to additional comments: Everton, Reading, Newcastle, Manchester City, Fulham, Blackburn, West Ham.....all these EPL teams have Americans on the roster. These are not "3rd division teams."

Answer 3

They already do they managed to get to the Quarter Finals of the World Cup in 2002 which is as far as England managed.... and France went out at the group stages. In fact they were until the middle of 2006 ranked higher than England on the FIFA rankings but have recently taken a plunge.

Answer 4

There cutting-edge involvement is physically powerful adequate. can we actually need america of a to alter into greater in contact as quickly as that occurs the sport will ought to get replaced to make it television friendly (a commercial at each stopage etc). take a glance at what television has executed to Ice Hockey a rapid 60 minutes all action activity now decreased to a sequence of stop start up instructions which could take 3 hours. next they're going to elect international Cup fits to kick off for top time television without theory to those that are going to the video games or collaborating. look on the Olympics Athens marathon timed for American television ran on the main well liked time of the day. enable them to maintain on as they are The Beckham theory has been tried earlier look who has performed interior america of a via the years and it has nonetheless no longer have been given then going.

Answer 5

They are Americans in the UFC stupid. Soccer is good but not the greatest. UFC fighting requires alot more skill and athleticism than soccer. Trust me. Im a soccer fan myself and i think UFC fighters are the best atheltes in the world. Also Americans play ice hockey which is a much faster game than soccer.

Answer 6

Maybe when they stop concentrating on their stupid sports like "american football" baseball, hockey and all of the other games and maybe concentrate the THE GREATEST GAME ON EARTH. When they finally put money into the game maybe just maybe they will get somewhere. but right now, they might qualify for a world cup, but if they dont do anything at the worldcup then they are just like any forgotten country. The MLS, ok for them but completely and utterly not even comparable to ANY other league on earth. Like come on people do you ever think that a country that is so far behind all of the other countries on earth when it comes to football will ever, ever make a big name for themselves. Seriously, beat high level teams and then maybe ill talk but come on. yeah fifa world rankings mean soo soo sooo much, yeah right, its a whole bunch of nothing.. like americas ranking PROVES how stupid it is. And i agree that baseball is a girlie game.

all i have to say is win a world cup and then you know you have something.

Answer 7

Let's see. A baseball player gets hit by a 90 mph baseball and walks to first base. Now a soccer player gets pushed and has to be taken off the field on a stretcher like a *****. Now who's the girlie?

Answer 8

as i said in the exact same question you asked already, they participate in the world cup, which in my opinion is the greatest tournament of the greatest sport on earth.

Answer 9

Because Americans are rebels and don't do whatever the rest of the planet is doing!

Answer 10

You must be new at this because the US have been playing the greatest game on earth for a while now, welcome back to earth, man.