He knows because he was the only one that grew up poor, in a trailer park. He played street ball with the Mexican kids. But its rare in soccer for that type of kid to make it big, most of them are from suburbs with well-off parents.

but we talking aBOUT THE US do they care about this

@@nofurtherwest3474 Clint can state an issue but I don't think he understands the complexities behind solving it. Just general statements don't make a difference.

@@BakerClassics i'm sure he understand the complexities far more than you. he was in the system, and the England system for years. So you should humble yourself to him. I'm pretty sure he has more details but that's not for a short youtube interview. And no it's not that complicated. My kid plays club soccer, but you know what, I've seen kids just as good as him that learned from playing pickup in the park. This isn't rocket science bud.

@@nofurtherwest3474 going to play college soccer is NOT "making it big" I'm sorry but that's laughable. College soccer is Academy/U23 level soccer. Nothing more. The real success stories in American soccer are not rich kids, they are the children of former footballers (e.g. Reyna, Pulisic) or children of immigrants (e.g. Almiron).

story of my life

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Also Football and basketball

@@Bruss813 this is the case with baseball , thats why football and basketball are so popular in america

this is the exact issue with playing baseball in the us

I disagree. All US sports are pay-to-play at the youth level from Baseball Little League to AAU Basketball. The issue is that those selected to play in US youth soccer are often people with connections or foreigners (no not children of immigrants, actual foreign players that come to America to take away opportunities from our players because they got boxed out of European or South American academies). US Youth soccer will develop once we stop giving away opportunities to other kids AND we start pushing multi-sport athletes to take soccer seriously. In the US our best athletes are multi-sport athletes.

I agree. My family did not have the time money to even be able to consistently put me or my siblings in non-competitive rec-leagues let alone the well-connected youth club/travel teams. I played in high school (a system not integrated into US Soccer’s system at all) but unfortunately the quality of coaching was abysmal. When thinking about how to play the college route there was no support coming from the school and local colleges were charging upwards of $800 to attend their combines/ showcases something my family could not afford.

hes delusional as well him alone could' ve have started for trinidad . but STILL making excuses. like its ok bro its been awhile now, just take accountability lol

He is saying, why are you saying that.

where was the emotional part? Everything he said makes sense. He even said that his team wasn’t good enough. He’s taken, deserved, criticism for literally years. He was front and center as a lightning rod for the failure, when youve got guys like omar gonzalez walking around scot-free after scoring an owngoal during trinidad 😂

Gio Reyna deserved minutes at the world cup. Instead Berhalter gave minutes to Morris and Shaq Moore. MLS trash. Nowadays Gio is a lockstart at the 10. That should have been the case in Qatar. The Reynas methods were wrong but not without reason.

But Reyna is good

If he was THAT good why isn’t he starting for club?

@@craigschnappinger6200he was injured earlier this season

​@@craigschnappinger6200Bench but in the squad for Dortmund is still miles superior to MLS

Best comment…you nailed it. That 2018 squad had a cockiness that was totally unjustified.

You aren’t alone, that was crazy and stupid of him, it would be a massive step back for pulisic if he considered his opinion.

Donovan’s problem was that he’d rather be a big fish in a small pond thn compete against the best. He couldnt hack it in europe outside of a decent half season loan in the EPL and his fanboys act like he was a world beater.

@@cntsingbutigtsol To be fair Donovan has been on this show and directly talked about and tried to expand upon what he meant by the statement. In regards to him not being able to hack it in Europe I disagree. He had the quality to be in Europe just chose what made him happier and what allowed him to play consistently. I dont blame him one bit but would have been a interesting what if.

Donovan still thinks you can improve at the same rate in MLS vis a vis Europe if you just get more playing time in the US league. Maybe in a one to one basis but overall the depth of US Soccer is based on going to where the best competition is.

Yeah go to the MLS from arguably the 2nd greatest team in all of football, ever...

Ours is worse I don’t see Mexico progressing past the quinto partido. I mean they got rid of relegation. We’re screwed.

As an american, don't feel sorry for us. We americans have pride and honor no matter what. We don't want your pity. It is very insulting to us.

@Trancymind All he said was both federations are a mess.

That’s why Mexico should’ve defeated Honduras so that in that way, USA still had a chance to make it to the playoffs & face Australia instead

@@FernandoCruz-np9ev A Mexico draw against Honduras would have eliminated Honduras on the spot while USA would have faced Australia BUT USA should have never been put in that situation with their own talent.

They flat out weren’t good enough. Talent wise or technically as a squad.

Yea but that’s Americans in general so what can you do

But he said why are you saying thst.

lmao exactly. So many people are unrealistic and over-hype bad American players. I remember a couple years back we had Josh Sargent as our main striker and people would call you a "hater" if you said anything bad about him 🤣

@@baller84milw Sargent is still our number 2 or three striker. he did better than ferriera and haji in world cup.

@@maxmaxie1328 You should've seen him at Norwich. I remember one time he was on a fast break with 40 yards between him and the last defender yet he still caught up and tackled him. He's mid, perhaps even worse than average.

Weah?

Cause all our best "physical specimens" play american football or basketball.

@@thefacelessquestion3333 weah has poor timing on his runs in most matches and lacks the frame to threaten opposing defenders with anything other than his pace

@@jbo4547 I’m not necessarily talking about DK Metcalf… look at Luca Toni or even Mark Viduka or someone like that… in 30 years we’ve never had anyone like either of those guys

​@jbo4547 Because both sports pay big money in this country. MLS salaries are insulting thus this country gets what it pays for.

that would explain why he is stuck playing at the MLS

had no identity during klinnsman reign. he destroyed a lot of the team cohesion.

Uh yeah there is a lot of talent that gets passe by. Do you really think the best kids only come from the wealthy suburbs? Not in France they don't. Or in Brazil. You don't know what you're talking about.

​@@nofurtherwest3474the trend most of the world is poorer communities often produce the best players.

Travel in our hemisphere is VERY different than Europe as the USA is continental sized. We cannot fly to several South American countries in less than 7-8 hours from many of our cities and logistically it would be a nightmare. CONCACAF is a very weak federation but geographically it's all we've got.

Exactly.That was an unforgettable goal.

No cap. It was an absolute heater.

USA were already down 1-0 at that point.

Alvin and chipmunks

And as someone from the USA I love my national team but Trinis are wonderful people thus when we lose to you guys it's not as painful.

Rather lose to Trinidad than Mexico any day

And lets be honest, people forget that we had the hardest opening 2 games in WCQ up to that point, sure it was mexico at home in Columbus Yada Yada, but playing our biggest rivals at home followed by what was our second biggest rivals at that time who had questionable the best player in CONCACAF, as well as a stadium that historically we have never won at, JK should've been given more time

right you don’t treat it meanless it

And continue to be a stereotypical retirement league

Exactly. Jozy answered the entire premise of this video right there. Remember this is one of the "veterans" of the squad that had to get carried across some puddles befofe the match

They play against tuff teams my guy USA way to the World Cup is easy we should always make it compared to those countries

Nobody cares what Donovan thinks 😂

Panama got destroyed by Belgium England EVEN Tunisia And if they made the playoff round maybe against Australia and potentially win it they woulda been also wrecked by Mbappe and France maybe Denmark and only win against Peru

No it wasn’t. It felt incomplete without them. Same goes for the Netherlands & Italy

@@FernandoCruz-np9ev At least the USMNT has some accolades after missing Russia 2018. Ditto for Italy.

He’s right you never go into a match “expecting” to win

@@JGL98 my comment wasn’t about the team’s mindset, it was about the media’s opinion

yes you do. Every competitor goes into a match expecting to win, that's a winners mentality. I played college american football, if we lost, I felt angry for 2 days afterward. It's the belief that your preparation is what's going to get you to victory.@@JGL98

My brother used to play at the highest level. They were a team made up of 90% Colombians from queens and they always had to face so many hurdles to get where they were instead of receiving help from the higher ups in soccer. It was such a joke and so expensive to just play some soccer.

why us it like that?

@@JohnJo-qn7wq because money talks, if you’re amazing and don’t have money to join the private travel team then you don’t get exposure. Some other white kid will

I agree. My family did not have the time money to even be able to consistently put me or my siblings in non-competitive rec-leagues let alone the well-connected youth club/travel teams. I played in high school (a system not integrated into US Soccer’s system at all) but unfortunately the quality of coaching was abysmal. When thinking about how to play the college route there was no support coming from the school and local colleges were charging upwards of $800 to attend their combines/ showcases something my family could not afford.

what the mls academy doing aren't they scouting real talent and could the kids play d1 the ones that are poor ?

@@JohnJo-qn7wq the ones that are poor, some do play D-1 college soccer but most don't go on that far because they either lose interest or never get exposed to high level scouts.. many factors happen but ultimately it is up to the kid if he or she wants to make pro level soccer...

You're argument is a non sequitar as your premise is based on a false analogy. The global game, including the long established soccer powers, do NOT play a pay-to-play system. Further, you cannot compare the American sports leagues to the rest since they don't operate on that model nor do they even play the same sport. One assumption you may be holding is that the American way can somehow revolutionize the game, but that's not going to happen on account of the fact that it's been at least 35-40 years of a serious attempt at youth development and almost 30 years of MLS. The American is not the right way.

we could beat the footballing minnows in other continents like asia, i can think of a few countries there the USMNT would stomp all over lol, but then again we dont wanna be using our performance against them as a benchmark of where we're really at right?

Bro,they were arrogant.The US team has always been arrogant and full of themselves.The sad thing is that they still haven't learn from that loss from T&T.Cuz from the media to the coach acts like that loss never happened.

We will have to see what happens on Thursday to see if that debacle will repeat itself, but it really shouldn’t happen twice. And for the future, the fandom refuses to forget that disaster, and the media shouldn’t either so they never get cocky like this again

Jordan Morris is an abysmal player on a technical level either way. Going to Europe would've just exposed his obvious weaknesses.

whys that? he and Clint have the most WC qualifying goals? Look at mfs like Omar Gonzalez

It is called ego.

THANK YOU! Its like people forgot about Omar Gonzalez

Then he put a HEAVY MLS roster instead of a mix batch and especially the players who are close or over 30 years old

@@ademirsegura6307 Well, it's a bit more complicated than that. MLS was very complicit in the failure of the 2018 qualification, but this was mainly because several of the key players from the 2014 campaign were sucked in by MLS after the 2014 World Cup. Because of the success of the USMNT in the 2014 campaign, MLS was able to get better deals and got a lot richer and so brought in Tim Howard, Dempsey, Bradley, and Altidore (as well as Jermaine Jones, who was not on this T&T match roster) on these special "designated player" deals. These players basically got WORSE playing in MLS, but were still either starters or subs in this match. Because of MLS, there were a lot fewer Euro-based top players at the time. MLS during this time had also offered easier opportunities for younger players - those who chose to go and stay in MLS, like Acosta and Arriola, never developed fully, never amounted to true international quality. MLS's worst crime during this period of time was by far its mal-development of the young American players - almost 10-15 years worth of young American players were lost to MLS as a result and became useless MLS scrubs. Arena chose to play these MLS scrubs and Omar Gonzales (who was in Liga MX at the time but an Arena favorite from his time with the LA Galaxy) instead of Premier League based Geoff Cameron and Tim Ream (Ream had joined Fulham, who were in the Championship at the time). And so the only Euro-based players who played in the match were Bobby Wood, Yedlin, and Pulisic. When you look at the list of MLS scrubs who were in this match, you can easily see how and why this team lost - Darlington Nagbe, Paul Arriola, J. Villafana were STARTERS in this match, and Acosta and Feilhaber were subs.

someone needs to tell Beerholder that he continues to be mediocre

europe leagues were thrash during that era

Yo I thought I was losing my mind for a sec, wtf is she doing?

@jimfarley8542 there is a clip of here on the Champions League show, where she claims she adopts accents

Charlie Davies yeah, before the accident he was really good.