Why America Will Never Be As Good As The Rest Of The World At Soccer

Im not saying America will not beat or compete with other nations at soccer or "Futbol" we will never be considered as good as a Brazil or Portugal national team. I will give you a couple reasons why. The first is other nations Soccer is they're primary sport! So all of they're best athletes play Soccer they don't wanna play American football or basketball and that is a 100% fact. If you grow up in Europe or South America you grow up watching and playing soccer that is the Worlds biggest sport. But in America you grow up playing a variety of sports American Football, Basketball, Baseball and a little amount of American youth play soccer. Therefore Just by those facts our National Team will be watered down. Our best Athletes don't even consider playing soccer. For instants Terrell Owens he plays American Football he is 6'3 230 pounds and runs a 4.3 in the 40 if you don't know what that means it means he is FAST! Imagine if he played Soccer if he watched and played soccer from the time he was a little kid he would be great at it but in America Terrell would not even consider playing Soccer the next sport he played while growing up was Basketball. See that is completely different from other parts of the world. Lets Look at Argentina's star player Lionel Messi he is they're best player and one of the best player in the world He is 5'7 148 pounds I'm not saying Messi is not athletic because he is but imagine if Messi had to guard Owens it will be very difficult for him to mark Owens extremely difficult. Another Athlete that would be a great Soccer player would be Kobe Bryant if you don't already know plays Basketball in the NBA he is 6'6 210 points and very athletic he would be an other great soccer player. That is the difference our best Athletes play other sports they are not interested in playing the worlds biggest sport. The best player arguable for America's National team is Landon Donovan and I'm sorry to say but he is not America's best athlete! If Landon Donovan was on the Brazil National team I'm pretty sure he wouldn't start and maybe not even make the team and if Landon Donovan was Brazil's best player many Brazilians would kill themselves because they're team would not be up they're standards. Ronaldinho a great Brazilian player one of the best players in the world didnt even make the team what does that tell you! America just doesnt care about Soccer like other nations do for instances in the 2004 Olympics The U.S. lost playing Basketball and only got the Bronze medal the next Olympics we came back with the best Player the U.S. had and kicked everyone's ass and received The Gold Medal. We dont have the same desire about Soccer as we do Basketball. Unfortunately I dont America will ever have the same Desire to be the best in Soccer and I'm pretty sure most Americans dont even care But that is the Reasons we will never be GREAT we can compete with some but I dont think we could ever win the World Cup not until we see our best athletes play.... Which I dont think will ever happen.