How many goals are in it now between USA and Portugal?
How many goals are in it now between USA and Portugal?
I apologise to any Americans in advance, please don't take this personally.
But does anyone else have a bitter feeling about the US team. People are talking about this being the watershed moment for football in the US and tv audiences setting new records etc. But does anyone get a rather bad feeling that if it is the watershed moment it will be just a matter of time before the US is winning the world cup and dominating the international stage.
I can see it being a case of the USA throwing a ridiculous amount of money into it and becoming a major force and with it starting to influence the game. I already see they have a fan HQ in Brazil unlike any other national team with celebrities attending and now this really 'cheesy' chant - i believe that we will win, and it looks like there fans have outdone England's. I seriously can see it being a case of 'we will stop at nothing to win the world cup' if the popularity sky rockets and than there is the added possibilities of them creating a domestic league with the sort of money that blows the premier league away. Im sure they could if they wanted have enough influence to wrangle there way into playing into the champions league somehow.
I would just really hate it it evolved so that English football, national and domestic was well and truly in their shadow. Its like its our game, I'm happy for you to play but know your place.
Maybe I'm just a very bitter jealous England fan.
It is only a matter of time before we win the world cup.
I don't believe that is true (or at least inevitable). There are plenty of great footballing nations who have never won it and there are two very good ones (France and Spain) who had to wait until relatively recently to win it. I think that you would require a lot of good fortune to be in with a chance of winning it now and you will have to take several steps up to be serious contenders. Even then you will only have something like a one in five or six chance of winning it.
I hear lots about football gaining in popularity in the US and from afar it does appear that it is beginning to gain a foothold. Whilst it is possible that football will continue to grow in the States, it is also possible that right now is a high water mark and that its popularity will decrease. Everything is cyclical and what is popular today, will fall out of fashion tomorrow.
That's a very fair point. I probably should have said that it's likely that we would be a top ranked (or the top ranked) team in the world. That might be more likely than winning the WC (given our position in CONCACAF too).
You might have a good chance of coming top of the FIFA rankings but no one takes those seriously
That's a very fair point. I probably should have said that it's likely that we would be a top ranked (or the top ranked) team in the world. That might be more likely than winning the WC (given our position in CONCACAF too).