DirtyP2002 said:
Is there any team sports that America is always in the top 5 of the world that is actually played by Europeans / Asians? |
I notice very often that people ate misinformed about basketball. It is the 2nd most popular sport in most of Europe, except for Scandinavia, I guess.
And many EU nations, along with Argentina, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and China are very competitive. We can see that in the growing number of foreign players in the NBA. But, of course, USA is still dominant, as it invests much much more in youth basketball programs, and has a large population to draw the talent from.
Soccer can slowly become on par, with larger investments blocked off by current lack of commercial potential on par with the Big Three, and lack of experts.
US national team achieved its greatest successes when led by foreign experts like Serbian Bora Milutinovic, who was at the time in Top 5 of world's coaches.
I still can't gauge Klinsmann's quality, but USA is a wild card in every World Cup, and will probably stir some trouboe in the group stage.
Oh, and I believe MLS should build a monument to David Beckham.
