The Coming ‘Golden Generation’ Will Not Accomplish What the 2002 Team Accomplished

There are Gold Cups and gold cups. The Gold Cups qualified you for the Confederations Cup.

Only the '91 and '07 count as Gold Cups we won. The rest were gold cups.

 

They’re all Gold Cups to me, and it’s not a great look we haven’t won back to back titles since 05-07. I hope to see a statement run in the next one.

 

Nah, it’s the regional championship. The Euros didn’t lose any meaning with th end of the Confed Cup.

 

It would if everyone fielded B teams.

 

Do yall think this is our Golden Generation

 

Nope.

 

Look at the Golden Generation for Belgium, they had world class players at top teams. Portugal 20+ years ago had the same. Golden Generation means the next generation will be weaker or not as good. Do guys seriously think our player pool 5-10 years from now will not be as good as it currently is? No way in hell.
We keep calling this a Golden Generation because we finally have a large group of players getting into much higher profile teams than in the past. It's because the US is now churning out a higher volume of professionally trained players.
Belgium and Portugal are pretty much running at 100% at developing players, whereas we still have a very long way to go to max out our capacity.

 

A golden generation has to include at least one world class player. A current US best eleven has none.

 

I don't think this is our golden generation because of the amount of talent coming from the 06s down to the 09s.
Most people who are saying this are fans of Mexico. This is 10000% Canada's golden generation because I don't see the next Davies or David.
Not always does a golden generation have a world-class player. Chile

 

Vidal and Sanchez were world class to me.

 

Not all regional championships are equal.

 

Meh, what would Donovan's group have done if fat fvkc Arena gave half a shyte about recruiting dual nationals? [Just, say, add Rossi and Subotic to his group.]


Now, take THIS group, and remove most of the dual nationals, and then tell us if this is still considered a [snicker] "golden generation?"

 

Soccer in the USA also has at least three other major professional sports to surpass in order to get access to the elite athletes who play in the NFL and NBA.

 

No. Better club pedigree, but not a Golden Generation for the USMNT.

 

It just feels like many other countries play harder, with more passion, than the current USMNT…

 

Davies will still be playing for Canada in 2036. Plenty of time to develop the next star.

Alexis Sanchez was in The Guardian's top ten for multiple seasons and Arturo Vidal was number 32 in 2016. I don't think Pulisic has been higher than #60.

 

What is the current USMNT? When was the last time our best 11 played together? There was plenty of passion against Mexico and Canada in the NL a year ago and they fought pretty damn hard in the group stage in Qatar.

 

I don't think any but Weston McKennie had an option to play other sports and McKennie got the soccer bug living in Germany. Turner switched to soccer at 14 presumably because he wasn't good enough at anything else.

 

Davies will be 36 years old. Could Davies make it to the 2036 WC, yes but he will not have a big impact because he relies on speed.
Those players were elite but not world-class players

 

It's 50/50. There are still people who choose to play other sports rather than soccer. Damion Downs choose soccer over American Football. Kaedren Spivey dad was a defensive back for Bowling Green. He also liked American Football but chose soccer.
I can't remember his name but there was a person that chose BaseBall over soccer not too long ago.
The biggest issue now is that MLS teams don't do their due diligence and develop players

 

In your opinion.

Damn site better than any US outfield player ever.

 

It is but the vast majority of Dads are going to take their kids to Little League, put a hoop up in the driveway or buy helmets and pads and that's only gradually going to change as a more soccer savvy generation spawns.

The biggest boost to domestic soccer would be to produce a player or two that the rest of the world is jealous of.