In the world of professional sports, the United States always seems to be at the top of the list for one of the best in the world, except for soccer. Many people have their theories as to why this is and many think that it is unacceptable for such a big country to struggle to qualify for a world cup out of the CONCACAF group.

A lot of people blame the fact that the United States men’s soccer team hasn’t won a world cup, or competed for one in a while, on a few main facts. First off, critics believe that college soccer has ruined the shaping of the modern day American Soccer player. Secondly, the youth system in the United States is flawed and needs to be changed. Also, the coaching and style of play in America is not classy enough for the world game, and lastly the teams that the national team plays are too weak compared to a team like Spain who always only plays the best teams in the world. Here are a few articles that discuss United States soccer and different critics take on the soccer issues in America.

Soccer’s other problem aside from being a ‘rich white kid sport’

In this Article, the writer discusses how the United States does not play soccer in a way that is good enough to compete with the best teams in the world. He also talks about how the coaches that they hire don’t input a style of play that can lead to success against better teams.

U.S. SOCCER IS HEADED IN THE
WRONG DIRECTION

In this article, The writer discusses all of the reasons as to why the United States missed the 2018 world cup in Russia. The article highlights the problems in the youth development systems all the way through adult player development at the professional level.

US soccer’s issues go way beyond finding the right coach

This article illustrates how the issues involved with the men’s national go way beyond the management. It discusses how its not just the coaches fault, like everyone initially thought, and that the issues stem way deeper in the USMNT federation.

U.S. Soccer Tries To Fix Its Problems By Building A Bigger Bureaucracy

In this article, the critics focus on how the United States are going to fix these main issues in the future and how to get this train back on track. They realize that the bigger fixes will not be fixed over night, but they need to start now in order to see changes before the next World Cup in 2022.

All four of these articles discuss the issue in the United States Soccer Federation and the consequences that they have suffered since missing the World Cup this past summer. While many issues still linger and remain unchanged, some changes have been made to improve on the actions of the team that failed to qualify last fall. It seems that the new people in charge of the Federation have been making strides to better the team for the future.