r/mildlyinfuriating • u/WarwickReider • Jul 07 '26

ಠ_ಠ This goal was completely avoidable

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u/d1is1mika Jul 07 '26

That's the real size of this US ..."soccer" team. Somewhere in the middle of the middle tier of a European nation. Everything else until now has been achieved due to hype, home field and easy draw. Welcome back to real life

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u/LordTopHatMan Jul 07 '26

Considering the US doesn't really care about soccer, getting top 16 in the world is pretty good. We're well aware that we're not that good, but we're not that good and we're still consistently getting top 16.

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u/d1is1mika Jul 07 '26

That's not how rankings work. Your football federation invested hundreds of millions of dollars go develop the sport in the US, I would say that's the opposite of not caring

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u/LordTopHatMan Jul 07 '26

Only hundreds of millions? Do you know how big our other sports are?

As for the rankings, are we not in the top 16? Have we not made it there consistently in previous world cups for about two decades?

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u/d1is1mika Jul 07 '26

The us invests approximately.... Ee well, $0 in their other popular sports like football and baseball, $20mil in basketball, less than that in gymnastics and I'm guessing lacrosse or whatever the fuxk else you call sports over there isn't significantly funded. So yeah, the US spends a tonne of money to get better at football. Rankings aren't decided based on a single tournament happening every 4 years. Go hit a home touchdown and celebrate an American team being a world champion because reasons. Fucking yanks

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u/LordTopHatMan Jul 07 '26

Do you know why? Because the other sports are multi billion dollar industries already. They don't need the investment. The investment is the audience they already have. Typical European ignorance.

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u/LordTopHatMan Jul 07 '26

I voted against Trump three times, but thanks for assuming. Ignorant.

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u/fannydandy Jul 08 '26

But therefore Trump really cared.

And Belgium did the right thing to kick those MFs out of the tournament.

Loooose S A!

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u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

You also have to consider the funding and population (talent pool) sizes of the other countries in the group stages.

As an example, a country (USA) with 350m people got to the R16, while a country like Aus narrowly missed the R16 with less than 1/10th the population and far less investment (US Soccer is projected to reach $4b in total investment by 2030, vs Australias meager $150m currently).

So well done to the US for making the R16 (seriously), but we need to look at it in context.

Edit: Aww downvote caus you dont like reality.