Every 4 years there’s an army of guys (always guys) who know *nothing* about what top-level football requires confidently tweeting that *if only* LeBron would kick a ball, we’d beat the rest of the world handily. It’s so ignorant & so, so arrogant.
Totally disagree with this. The quality of a national team is simply a function of the number of people who seriously try to play the sport. So the population x the percentage of people who get a legit shot to make it. That percentage is just way lower in the US than in most countries around the world. Our top athletes are playing football cornerback and slot receivers, basketball point guards and baseball. Nothing wrong with it but don’t act like our soccer deficiencies aren’t a direct result of top athletes playing other sports. It is.