2024 COPA America Thread

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Beautiful opening message! I can't believe they opened with a prayer. Love it.

Go USA!

Argentina should beat Canada. I hope they do.

[POND_OF_RED]

Originally Posted by Monticore

Wemby doesn’t exist I guess

That’s the guy who said Durant was his “welcome to the NBA moment” because of how fast and elusive he was for his size. So, yeah, they don’t make them like KD

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

The issue with US soccer is that we treat youth soccer different than every other country in the world. We don’t groom young talent. We just pick the kids with the richest parents to play club level and charge the parents an arm and a leg. Every other country finds amazing youth talent and pays them to start playing professionally before they are even teenagers. The pay to play system in this country is what needs to be fixed

American soccer is good for two things:
1) beating Mexico
2) getting suburban parents to spend a lot of money and thousands of hours for their kids to play soccer.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

And you think in this massive country of ours that even after you take away all those athletes, our next wave of athletes are worse than Uruguay? You think there isn’t, for example, a huge and growing Hispanic population that probably have soccer as their #1 sport? Yeah it makes it harder for us to be the best of the best, but there aren’t excuses for us soccer to be this bad. There is plenty of athletic talent that could and would prioritize soccer.

You don't get it do you? We just don't care enough. Very few kidd dream of being a ****ing soccer star. They'd get laughed at. In other countries soccer is god. The top tier talent is simply oversaturating the big 3 sports because those are tye ones kids dream of playing. These breeds levels of competition down to early playing levels onward and up. Competition brings this out in the other sports that we dominate.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

They’re only one win away from finally ending a tournament out of the red on the goal differential side. Will be interesting to see if they can pull it off.

Still more worried about how pretty the soccer is than actual results. That’s how you end up getting grouped by Panama with far superior talent, yeah.

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Still more worried about how pretty the soccer is than actual results. That’s how you end up getting grouped by Panama with far superior talent, yeah.

Or finish dead last in your group at all of the World Cups you’ve played in (which is a pathetic 2) like Canada.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by New World Order

Or finish dead last in your group at all of the World Cups you’ve played in (which is a pathetic 2) like Canada.

Canada was a complete joke in soccer for the entire sport’s existence until literally like 2 years ago. Shit, even now their program was effectively bankrupt (they are paying Marsch through subsidies from the Canadian MLS clubs). You can’t possibly be praising USA for doing slightly better than that, right?

[KC_Connection]

If Canada wins one more game this week, they’ll have surpassed USA’s best run at Copa in 5 appearances in their first appearance. A country with massively more resources and a gigantic talent pool in comparison to tiny Canada. All of Canada’s best athletes play either hockey or basketball too so that can’t be an excuse either for USA’s underachieving at this sport.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Kind of like how hockey is ingrained in Canada. It doesn't matter that we have a huge population advantage, it is so ingrained in their culture that is what kids dream of doing sports wise.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

If Canada wins one more game this week, they’ll have surpassed USA’s best run at Copa in 5 appearances in their first appearance. A country with massively more resources and a gigantic talent pool in comparison to tiny Canada. All of Canada’s best athletes play either hockey or basketball too so that can’t be an excuse either for USA’s underachieving at this sport.

No one cares

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

We lost to Panama and Colombia is slaughtering them.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

No one cares

This level of hating is unheard of #CanMNT pic.twitter.com/d6D8ENnYsL

— . (@wmarpez) July 6, 2024

He seems quite bitter about it

[KC_Connection]

If it wasn’t clear before Colombia destroyed Panama 5-0, the US was in the worst group of the tournament. How does Berhalter still have a job?

[George Liquor]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

If Canada wins one more game this week, they’ll have surpassed USA’s best run at Copa in 5 appearances in their first appearance. A country with massively more resources and a gigantic talent pool in comparison to tiny Canada. All of Canada’s best athletes play either hockey or basketball too so that can’t be an excuse either for USA’s underachieving at this sport.

Don't get your hopes up too high, usa got smashed by the Argies in the semis too.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by George Liquor

Don't get your hopes up too high, usa got smashed by the Argies in the semis too.

Canada lost to France once at hockey. It’s exceedingly unlikely but you never know.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

If it wasn’t clear before Colombia destroyed Panama 5-0, the US was in the worst group of the tournament. How does Berhalter still have a job?

If the country actually cared about soccer, you'd see different results