This was good, Pete! Could we get more of these types of videos? Not a whole lot of soccer channels doing quantitative analyses of our progress 🇺🇸

This may be a hot take but I don’t think this is the USMNT’s golden generation. These guys are paving the way for something MUCH bigger

Really awesome in-depth analysis, Pete!

Call me a data nerd, but this is one of the best USMNT vids I've ever seen.

Nice camera bro!!!😎

I really enjoy this video! Deff shows the progress.

That was a new sort of thing. I liked it!

Great video.

Interesting analysis

I really appreciate this annual breakdown and historical comparison, thanks man!

Hey Pete! Nice video. Would be interesting to see total minutes and goal contributions by country in the top 5/6 leagues. Brazil must be off the charts!

Wow what a statistic, great video Pete

As a PSV fan from Eindhoven I can assure you Americans not to worry too much about Pepi's quality. He has proven time after time he doesn;t need many minutes of play to show off his skills which despite little playtime have increased tremenduously by training and being surrounded with champions leage level players and national champions. Same goes for Tillman who did become a starting player and Dest who has really unfortunately been injured for quite some time. If only for the increase of regard towards USMNT players in Europe = last season was a succes for the PSV Americans.

We should throw in goals *against* top 5 league teams as well (eg Haji’s goals against Man United and Wolves)

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Good Stuff 💋

Great videos

Not that it would have made much difference, but was there a reason you counted Chandler now and not in 2012/13 (3 goal contributions for Nurnburg in the Bundesliga)? Or Fabian Johnson (6 for Gladbach) or Aron Johansson (3 for Alkmaar) for that matter?

Much awaited video!!!

Great video breakdown!!!

Nice work, thanks Pete! Is there anyone out there that really think prior generations are better than today's though? I doubt anyone paying attention actually thinks that.

We are counting Koleosho as American?

Really good video! Fantastic idea.

Do one about Mexico. That would be a laugh😂

Great video. It shows the progress of the player pool. It can also be used to compared and contrasted with the USMNT progress. If the players are progressing and contributing more and more their club teams but not to USMNT it is either the players fault or mgmt/coaching fault. When the team is not progressing is it the players or mgmt/coaching?

Those pie charts just aren't mathing

Jozy bagging 38 Goals and then completely just never finding his footing way at a higher level; is why I don't get hyped up over Erdeveise goal scoring

Is Everdise better than the Portugal league?

When you ask the best USMNT XI to chatGPT, you get THoward, SCheroundulo, Marcelo Balboa, Boca,Beasley, CReyna,Bradley,Donovan, Dempsey, McBride, Pulisic.

All this in spite of GGG,....Just trying to play the antagonist.... Oh and i'm sick of the GGG hate because its silly. ;^) but maybe the opposite gets more clicks....

Hannover and Schalke are 2nd league I'm Germany ... Right?

Two thoughts: 1) The point you're making is only reinforced by the fact that you are only using the top 6 leagues. If you had allowed yourself to use Sargent, Haji, Griffin Yow, Busio, Tessman, etc., the difference would be even more stark. 2) I think the reason for all of the pushback against this generation is due to the lack of any signature accomplishment at the international level. All previous generations have at least a signature moment, if not a huge upset/overachievement win. This generation continues to accomplish the minimum expectation -- never anything more, but occasionally less -- and USSF continues to try to lower expectations in press conferences and celebrate mediocre results. This generation will get their due when they actually accomplish something significant at the international level outside of Concacaf.

Been asking for this for some time and haven't seen this content. Perhaps after Copa America I've been wanting to hear about "all time stats" from usmnt players. UCL stats Appearances Goals/Assists Titles World cup Appearances Goals/Assists Titles (I know none) Copa America Appearances Goals/Assists Copa Oro Appearances Goals/Assists Titles Career abroad stats (top 5 leagues) Appearances Goals/Assists Titles

Emma Hayes should coach the USMNT! She's far better than GGG.

Bruce Arena said that there's more good players now, as opposed to saying the players in the past were better. Many of the 2002 players were very good to be fair. Our current team can't pass or score goals. Basically only Pulisic & Weah (& Reyna) score goals, and people don't want to entertain the idea of Weah playing striker.

What I we miss is that the current team is handicapped by their coach. Give us the same coach from 2012 then compare the best of the two teams

Sorry, I can't buy having high expectations for this squad anymore, especially for the Copa America. Our top "talents" except for Pulisic and McKennie of course, have had horrible seasons for mostly mediocre clubs, (Reyna at Forest for example) and it has damaged their stock going forward like it or not because that's how fast-moving the European soccer market is. Most devastating are the players at great clubs having horrible seasons like Musah at Milan, Weah bench at Juventus, and Balogun at Monaco. This is not cause for excitement, i hold my breath thay their clubs are patient with these players precisely because they are young, but we're talking about Europe here, so I have my doubts sadly. Cherry on top is that our best ball-handling defender Dest is out. The team looks so much better and actually fun to watch as a whole with him (him being on the level of Pulisic & Reyna in ball skills is helpful and entertaining) than without him, without him the defense looks toothless with the ball and Scally is not equipped to fix that nor is he the same level of player Dest is. We saw Scally's "defense" at work in the CCL this year, supposedly what he can do competently, well it was not very encouraging for the national team, prove me wrong Scally, please.

A better way to look at the stats would be to compare like vs like, meaning the six goal contributors in 12-13 vs the top six in 23-24. Why? Because it’s too easy to say “we have more players now” or “we recruit more dual nats now.” Which is true both cases. However, when going 6 v 6, we see 73 v 97, a per player average of ~12 v ~16. Also, if we throw out the contributions on either end of the curve (the highest and lowest) , and sum the middle four, the difference is even more stark: 33 v 61. And to take it a step further we could add coefficients to put more weight on contributions ie a goal on the EPL has more weight than the Erdevise. As a data and stats nerd, I love robust findings. And I as a USMNT fan, I love that your initial hypothesis holds up under scrutiny.

The pushback on this generation is from idiots who only watch MLS every week