It's worth noting how Mbappe has the same number of goals as Norway's Haaland. Haaland has been catapulted to GQ covers. He seems nice as well as talented. Conversely, Mbappe is receiving global racial abuse even from politicians bc anti-Blackness is pervasive the world over.
So you think the American taxpayer should fund youth soccer? You should definitely run for office on that. What about piano lessons, SAT prep, dance, math tutoring, horse riding, fencing etc? Should taxpayer fund those? Also, our goverment financially supports many sports.
There's absolutely ludicrous amounts of footballing talent here in the "ghettos" of the United States that goes completely unseen for a myriad of reasons all that haven't been addressed even since I played in it
There's so many factors as to why that is
@DanzW0rld No but that is literally what non initiated Americans are saying when it comes to " if our best athletes played soccer the US would be good"
No one is saying Hazard and the like aren't world class athletes they're saying Americans don't understand that AF builds won't help us
Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely