[Win1894]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Our friends from The Great North had the right idea. Take a soccer field, reduce it in size to about 25% of what it was, flood it, freeze it, put skates on the players and give them a hard rubber disc to play with rather than a clumsy ball, and voila!

Hockey!!

Those Canadians knew how to fix a really dull, boring game.

Alternatively, indoor soccer is very fast moving and higher scoring. No offsides rules and player subs are handled like hockey. It can be very exciting for sure.

[Ecuadog]

USA vs Wales... tie (1-1).

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

How far into the 2022 World Cup do you think the US men will get?

United States men's national soccer team - Wikipedia

2022 games--United States men's national soccer team - Wikipedia

They face Wales, England and Iran in the First Round.

(yawn)

[Babubhat]

Rotten performance against Wales. As expected

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC;2152378[B

]Would rather they play until they score a game winning goal.[/B] Too often they just run back and forth which becomes rather boring to me. They could make rule changes that would yield more scoring but they choose not to.

They should also get rid of the phony injuries. Ridiculous take someone off on a stretcher and than they come back good as new a little later

They'd have to time a game like that with a calendar.

[LuvNH]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

Rotten performance against Wales. As expected

Totally disagree. Wales is a world class team, the Welsh are born playing soccer whereas the Americans are new to the game and held their own. I am sure the US team are buying talent, but with all the Hispanics settling here now things should change in the future.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Totally disagree. Wales is a world class team, the Welsh are born playing soccer whereas the Americans are new to the game and held their own. I am sure the US team are buying talent, but with all the Hispanics settling here now things should change in the future.

LOL! nothing to do with immigrants. . or hispanics. . in reverse, that would be like saying football would take off where there are so many US expats. . . . The real reason in the US is that there are so many alternative sports/activities in the US, and with the marketing power of football and beer overwhelms soccer.

For a vast part of the world, soccer is the way out of poverty, not the case here in north america. College football is the trade school for the NFL. College is similar for soccer, but its a world game, unlike football, baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse, basketball, which are primarily north American sports. . with true world sport, you see 10 year olds playing soccer in the streets all over the world. .

Here in the villages, at the villages soccer club, there is the father of the USWNT coach who won the world cup, he came from england as a coach and wrote the US junior training manuals with child psychologists. . . he turned pro at like 16. He did that in like the 70s. . . that's been plenty of time in this sized country to develop a program. . .

The other issue is that former players don't always make the best coaches. . and getting good coaches for younger children is an expensive proposition at this point. . . .