Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"

chunes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

  america only care about the americans only sports, football and basketball, and baseball. ive only ever seen heavily played in a university where students want to be professional in the eu.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if there’s any country above 84%. Some small countries like Bosnia seem even more obsessed than Brazil, but they have such a small population that they don’t have the reputation of Brazil.

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• NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can think what you like, I for example think the rest of the world understands perfectly well that soccer isn’t one of your primary sports.

  For a sport in its infancy in your country, I didn’t think the US team were that bad

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  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It actually is one of the primary sports for women in the US. And their womens team is one of the best, having won the world cup 4 times, 91, 99, 15 and 19

    And for 1 in 4 sportsfans to follow football in the US isnt THAT bad. More than i expected.

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  • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s even more scathing haha

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What amuses me is the soccer fans here who think we’re going to get better. I first encountered this in '94 when we (the US) hosted the world cup and got spanked by a Brazil team playing with 10 players. It’s like Indians saying they’re going to be good at basketball soon (they aren’t, because they love cricket).

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the US is going to get better, but I don’t think they’ll be challenging any of the global powerhouses. Soccer / futbol is getting more and more popular over time. And, typically, when a country hosts the world cup, 10-15 years later there’s a new group of players who were inspired by the tournament and who have spent the time since then focusing on it.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      American athletes generally are multi-sport players when younger, and tend to follow the best money. The players who have the best chance at being star soccer players simply end up playing football or basketball. The sport being less popular than at least 4 other sports in America is a huge problem for developing homegrown talent for the national team.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All American sports are dying because of private equity:

    www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DPeRd48YfqY

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    • SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This, it is sucking the life out of kids sports

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Italy didn’t even qualify this year.

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