You shouldn't, this was an apt discussion about the evolution of sport internationally not a compare and contrast exercise. This is ENTIRELY A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE EVOLUTION AND EXPLANATION OF FUTBOL, so maybe you'd like to read it again, I'm very interested in your thoughts here (for real not being facetious)
A major reason the US is NOT competitive at futbol is simply because our best athletes play in the NBA, NFL, or MLB. Our NCAA college system is the equivalent of the minor leagues that develop futbol talent abroad so successfully. Indeed, our NCAA has futbol programs BUT our athletes simply don't devote themselves to it, they move on to more lucrative and promising careers in American professional sports.
In South America or Europe players become footballers because THAT is their most promising option and career path. HOWEVER, this is increasingly changing as in Europe their basketball leagues become more competitive and pay better (indeed several washed up American basketball players now go there to make easy money) than they used too.. Meanwhile this is allowing for Spaniards, Argentinians, and Frenchmen to become a powerful force in the NBA and in international basketball.
Same thing with MLB, American baseball is essentially only alive because of the infusion of Asian and Central American players who devote themselves to baseball in their own countries aspiring to play in the US..
SO, if our American weakness in futbol has been that our athletes just don't want it, yet now American sports are increasingly being taken over by international and foreign born players, perhaps this is reflecting a cultural shift internationally?
IN OTHER WORDS, IF ARGENTINA OR SPAIN HAVE BEEN FUTBOL POWERHOUSES BECAUSE FUTBOL IS THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN PERHAPS THIS WILL CHANGE THEIR FUTBOL DYNAMICS AS BASKETBALL AND BASEBALL BECOME LEGITIMATE PROFESSIONAL ALTERNATIVES?
Perhaps in Argentina, France, or Spain youngsters will no longer dream of being Messi but of being Manu?? If so, will this in the long arc potentially weaken these nations dominance of futbol talent?? Will this then give USA a chance to inch our way in there?
THAT was my point, and I dare say its valid
