Team of Mutts - the US U23 national team

You know what, never mind. After reading through some of your posts I gather that you were talking about France's failure in WC2010, and are attributing it to the diversity on that squad. Of course, that argument would conveniently ignore France in 1998. And 2000.

But then, as with your "best regions" for producing certain types of players, you're just pulling crap out of your ass.

A better argument to support this would have been the Laurent Blanc controversy with their youth system and preferences. But I don't think that's the argument you were making -- let me know.

fyp.

 

By all reports, the first two probably do happen in ODP more than we'd like (i.e., at all). Of course, ODP is decreasingly important given the DAs and MLS academies.

As for the third, meh, I'm just not buying it. By all reports, the ODP, say, is less diverse than one would expect. And, if nothing else, if there were some mandate toward diversity at the USSF, the women's team would look way different.

Sure, but I hardly think that applies to the U23s except in the very attenuated sense that it affects who goes pro.

You mean let an incompetent coach lead a squad of surly, over-the-hill prima donnas?

Seriously, what do you mean? You're not arguing that somehow it was the "diversity" of the French squad that blew up in their faces in 2010?

 

I get the feeling OnTheRoadAgain may have some "ethnic preferences" of his own.....

 

I do have ethnic preferences.....with countries that have a track record of producing world class talent. That was the whole point of my post.

Sebastian Lletget is Argentine/Italian. That's a nation(s) that has a track record of producing loads of world class talent. So where was he?

Andrew Wenger is German. Another nation that has great talent production. Where was he? Where were all our other young Germans like Andrew Wooten, Dominque-Farrel, etc?

It's not a coincidence that the best US players in the past 10 years follow the same pattern:

Cherundolo - Italian
Reyna - Argentine/Portuguese
Friedel and Keller - German
Dempsey and Donovan - Irish
John Harkes - English father
Ramos - Paraguay (or Uruguay?)
Howard - American/Hungarian
Hejduk - Czech Republic
Mathis - German

 

... not sure if serious...

 

He's suggesting Jim Crow is the way to go.

 

So in the Olympic 100m and 200m track and field event, should we field a few Anglo-Saxons just for the sake of diversity? Of course not. Everyone knows people of Caribbean and African-American origin dominate.

You use your strengths to your advantage. That's the whole point - going with what works!

 

Long live post-racial 'Murrica.

 

Man, I have German, English, and Russian ancestry. If only I had known it would make me World Class, I would have played much better....

 

This thread has committed a heinous crime and now will be put down.