World Cup qualifiers controversy?

[elprincipe]

CaptainPrefrences said:

Uh yes? If the proper amount of time, money and coaching was put into countries in Africa and Asia these countries like Egypt and Ghana, Japan South Korea would be world powers. There is so much un scouted talent in these two continents and tehy can never go far because of the lack of resources. I will use the USA as an example. Before there was the MLS league the US was crap an couldnt even qualify for a world cup. When the MLS came you started to see the US slowly dominate the concacaf region, an then they beat teams like Brazil Portugal and Spain.. its slwo but its working...

We don't "dominate" the CONCACAF region.  The US are certainly competitive or superior to any team in the region, but we aren't a stronger team than Mexico.  Our club sides (MLS) are certainly not as good as Mexican club sides (look at CONCACAF Champions League results).  The national team is just as good if not better than Mexico and Costa Rica, but can hardly be said to "dominate" when those teams consistently beat us at home.  I think we will not see major improvement on the national team until we have some players regularly starting for top European teams (I'm not talking about Everton or Fulham here).