U.S. Soccer is an Unequivocal Disaster

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Uninspired, uninteresting, unprofessional, and downright un-American. The US Men’s National Team is unadulterated terribleness. That is unbelievable in its own right. Failure at Copa America was another self-inflicted disaster from an underperforming side whose results ungulate more than a roller coaster at Universal Studios. Undeniably, we’ve come to understand the team would rather be doing just about anything else. In a word, unprofessional. From a fan’s perspective utterly unbearable.

Here’s a question: When did America have a men’s national team we could be proud of? 2014, probably. I mean, when Belgium scored that extra-time goal in the World Cup 2014 round of 16, it was the unofficial end of US soccer’s age of enlightenment.

In the ten years since World Cup Brazil, U.S. soccer has declined. Not necessarily from a talent standpoint. But from a team standpoint, from a willingness to play for not only the flag but also one another, well, these are non-existent.

For several years now, every time the U.S. takes the field, it looks like a bunch of random dudes playing a pickup game in the park. Some of that is on the coach, but a lot of it rests on the players, who seem to think they are much better than they really are.

In many ways, this is the exact opposite of what we saw from the USMNT during the 2000s. That team did not have a lot of talent. There were good players, but they didn’t overwhelm anyone with skill.

Instead, they were going to make you earn a result. They worked. And if you didn’t have your working boots on, the US was going to beat you. And that was a side and a style that Americans were proud of. Sure, we weren’t even going to win the World Cup. But we were going to make the opposition earn everything.

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