AMERICAN FOOTBALL

They are a power in basketball, athletics, swimming, boxing ... any sport has participants Americans, all in the Olympics medal table is headed by the United States team. Not to mention the expanding cultural, economic and social conscience that we are accustomed. But in football, soccer, things are quite different. In the current step is proving its Confederations little supportive. Two matches, two defeats. Italy and Brazil have come soon with the dream of reaching the semis. Little dog collar for both, is possible. But Egypt's victory last night left in a worse place to American aspirations. You can earn from a big order, and the conviction itself. A country with social and monetary capital in the U.S. can be a good breeding ground.


Schools football league competitive, any initiative that could enrich the extremely low status of sport in the king's most powerful country in the world. Neither the arrival of Beckham, who left the beeping Sniffing baked it there, could revitalize the U.S. soccer. True, basketball, baseball, football and capitalized interest of the majority of the fans. The financial injection is always in line with the commitment that the public will have a sports broadcasts in either discipline. U.S. has been spoiled from FIFA because of the anticipation of gains that a country of that size could make the case in football to become a majority preference. His appointment as the headquarters of the World 94 responded to these expectations.


With so much criticism of the election illegitimate, the championship began to go underground with a view: that an event of this nature to drag the public to the enjoyment of soccer. The purpose was water. Any continued. Neither the U.S. participation in dignity, with the reminder that Lalas and hortera so-shirt or the chance to enjoy close to Romario, Preud'homme, Stoichkov and Baggio could turn on the motor trade. Beckham started the path already marked Pele or Cruyff, playing in the Major League for packing a competition that verges on the amateurism.


If the U.S. wants to reach something in football must patiently weaving the network of clubs that cross the country from east to west. Give a more professional profile to a championship since the franchise system to the names of the teams, we are less curious. Conversely, several players have been Americans who have spent more or less glory for the big leagues in Europe. Tab Ramos from the great in the Betis Ray Keller and Tottenham or Wynalda of Bochum, the latest Beasley of PSV, Rangers or the City or promising Altidore's Villarreal.



The conclusion is that American players have to leave their country to learn and compete in European football. Soak another way to tackle the sport. Improve performance and defend the national team more efficiently than in the last major tournament seems to show. This seems the only room for improvement after fifteen years of statism and experienced no progress after a priori crucial boost to soccer in a Confederate state. U.S. comes after the Confederations Cup CONCACAF Champions erected in 2007. The Football Association Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean does not seem an unfavorable environment and conflict. U.S. is best placed within this body in the FIFA ranking. Its main opponents are teams coming unless something like Mexico or Costa Rica, with exotic selections such as Belize and Suriname combined or loose as Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago.

It is not a race capable of testing a computer that is intended to be a respectable bloc in international events. Maybe the rooms towards the global 2002 may be the mirror in which to look in the future. Confederations Cup in the United States today has left us only a few minutes to a well-contested Italy fofa anything but a feeling of smallness and innocence that his tactical discipline and defensive solidarity can not disguise.

His experience so far is only comparable to New Zealand combined. Little for a team that has experienced players such as Howard guardamenta ex-Everton and United, the striker Donovan with a brief step-by-Bayern, the defense always exploit Onyewu-Liege, Newcastle or promises as mentioned Altidore, Freddy Adu and Charlie Davies. The match against Brazil yesterday uncovered the miseries of a selection with a lot of potential but with a diminishing reality. I hope that an international tournament such as this serve as a warning signal to straighten and a large ship loaded properly, but browsing to drift for years in this business of football.