zexen_lowe said:
damndl0ser said:
pastro243 said:
zexen_lowe said:
Nobody is asaying that the US does bad in football, everyone knows they're very succesful in women's football (they won the gold medal, right?) and in the last two WC they didn't do bad (they had an excellent 2002 WC and were eliminated in a very tight match against the to-be-finalist Germany in quarter-finals, anmd in 2006 they took part in the most difficult group and drew against the to-be-champion Italy in a match they deserved to win). But a team's success has nothing to do with passion (there are countries with bad teams and a lot of passion -I dunno, a lot of Central American and African teams-, and countries with good teams and no passion -Venezuela has improved a lot lately, but the country simply doesn't like football-).
I think that a WC should only be hosted in a country were it would be THE event, and all other activities (like other sports) have to take a backseat against the WC. For example, in the 2006 WC, even if we didn't host the WC, every Argentina match the city was completely paralyzed, every office and school put TVs so everyone could see the matches and nobody worked or studied for the two hours that took the match. The only thing the newspapers were talking was about the WC, and everywhere the only thing people talked was about the WC, as it should be, because the WC is the biggest sport event in the world along with the Olympics, I'm sure that in most participating countries it was the same. Do you think that if another WC would take part in the US, it would be the most important thing happening there, it would be the even that drew the most attention from the newspapers? I think not. That's no "WC atmosphere" for me
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I agree with Zexen, there should be passion in the country that organizes the WC. Oh, and Canada wont get the WC on those years, they had the U 20 world cup on 2007, and that makes hard that they have another big football tounament in their country so soon. For example, here in Chile, we had last year the U 20 woman WC and the US won, I saw the final when I was in San Francisco and even though they won nobody seemed to care.
And as zexen said, having a good team has nothing to do, and we south americans think the US is bad because even thpugh they go to every world cup its because their rivals, except for mexico, are really bad, and its easy to get to the WC comparing the Euro qualifiers or the south american ones.
The WC has to be the most important thing happening in the country thats the host, here even thought we didnt go to the last 2 WC we saw all of the matches, they even gave us time at school to watch some matches, and in 1998 when we went, I was 8 and the country was paralized every time the national team played, we just went to school to see the matches and they painted our faces and we sang and played football all day, you could really see the impact. And in 1962 when we where the hosts that made Television be massive for the first time in our country.
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Even though the USA may not have "Soccer" as our # one sport we still probably have more than 15 or 20 times more players than your country (Chile) does simply by mere population. So it would be much easier for the USA to come up with a decent enough team to get into the WC.
Every highschool and most elementary schools have Soccer teams now. The sport is growing very much here in the states and having a WC here would do nothing but help improve its popularity. So I think all of you people talking smack about "devotion" to the game are idiots.
Having the WC in the States would do nothing but help the sport grow, and that is what FIFA is all about.
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Please tell me that you don't follow much football, because that statement is simply ridiculous. If population was the only thing that mattered, then the best teams would be China and India. Guess what? China only participated in one WC and lost all its matches, India as far as I know never participated in one. Conclusion: Population does not matter.
It's easy, the US has a decent team, but nothing amazing, and certainly not on par with most South American nations (Chile included) and it will take a lot of time to change that. They qualify to every WC simply because there are very few CONCACAF nations that are any good.
Face it, there already was a WC there and it didn't do much, what makes you think a new one will?
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