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

• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This, it is sucking the life out of kids sports

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    isnt Middle east practically the Private equity of sports right now, the oil generating countries are just buying up sports team and sportwashing them.

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, because they love cricket, they can’t love basketball? Spain, which has 2 orders of magnitude less the population, is a powerhouse both in football and basketball.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      soccer/football seems to be the only sport that our state uni has as a legit team, and msot of them want to be part of AN EU team after graduation, they likely know the US one isnt very lucrative or very good at getting them to level of the EU, BRAZIL,etc.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mostly mean before college. There is definitely a path for american soccer players, but its not in America like you say. World class players still “retire” and then go play in America, which says a lot.

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