Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Portland Timbers have one American player.Marco Farfan and his family is from Mexico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Sounders have seven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Atlanta FC has 8Most of the keepers are American. Much easier to teach here Vs foot work skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyL Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Portland Timbers have one American player.Marco Farfan and his family is from Mexico.You just picked out the most “foreign” team in the league, and missed Attinella and Valentin. Again, I ask...Did you make up the number 95? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Aristatel Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Portland Timbers have one American player.Marco Farfan and his family is from Mexico. I count 7. At least 7 listed as from the US. https://www.timbers.com/players Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Aristatel Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Marco Farfan and his family is from Mexico. His bio says he was born in Oregon and lives in Oregon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 I count 7. https://www.timbers.com/playersAhh not so fast my friend. This includes the U23 team. My son use to train with Foster Langsdorf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 His bio says he was born in Oregon and lives in Oregon.My son trained with him too. His brother was actually better than him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 I guess I was referring to starting players. Here is where I found the information. As MLS grows, U.S.-born players face greater competition for roster spotsFacebookTwitterFacebook MessengerEmailcommentApr 14, 2017Noah DavisEditor's note: Just 10 of the top 30 of ESPN FC's #MLSRank list are eligible to play for the U.S. national team. This article originally published in April, but with so few U.S. internationals featuring in the U.S. and Canada's first division, the question was again raised about opportunities in Major League Soccer for U.S.-born players. In the opening weeks of Major League Soccer's 2017 season, ESPN analyst Taylor Twellman alerted the viewing audience to a concerning set of numbers: 51.2 percent, 47.3 percent, 45.5 percent and 42.1 percent. Those figures, courtesy of Elias Sports Bureau, represent the percentage of opening-day starters who were born in the United States from 2014 to 2017. Raw numbers tell a similar story. In 2014, 107 U.S.-born players started for Major League Soccer teams. In 2017, that number fell to 102, despite the total number of starting spots increasing by 33 through the addition of four expansion franchises and the closing of Chivas USA. Seeking further detail, I asked Elias for figures about the number of U.S.-born players who played at least a single minute during a given season. The decline was about the same. In 2014, 260 of the 499 players (52.1 percent) were born in the U.S. In 2015: 253 out of 524 (48.3 percent). A year later, 230 out of 510 (45.1 percent). Through last week, the number was even lower for 2017: 181 out of 416, or just 43.5 percent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Aristatel Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Ahh not so fast my friend. This includes the U23 team. My son use to train with Foster Langsdorf. MLS teams have 2 teams? Had no clue. I'm getting soccer educated here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 You just picked out the most “foreign” team in the league, and missed Attinella and Valentin. Again, I ask...Did you make up the number 95?[/quoteNo, choose them because it’s where I lived and know the team well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 MLS teams have 2 teams? Had no clue. I'm getting soccer educated here!LOLs!!! Senior team T2U23Youth Academy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Dibs it the Timbers developmental pyramid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
housepicks Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Do Asains have better table tennis coaches are do they just value the game more over there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajt Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 The development system in the USA sucks. Our best players are guys that go to Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Aristatel Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Dibs it the Timbers developmental pyramid. Weird they have all those players listed on their roster then. If you go to the Anaheim Angels team page, you don't see AAA players listed. Unless they have actually came up and played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol Aristatel Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 The development system in the USA sucks. Our best players are guys that go to Europe. That could be. But it's not the main reason the US is not a world soccer power. It's simple. The best athletes in the US don't play soccer. They play football, basketball, and baseball. That may change in the near future. But that's the main reason the US has been behind other top countries in the worlds most boring game. Futbol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyL Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 The development system in the USA sucks. Our best players are guys that go to Europe. That's true for most of the world though. Think about where the development system was a generation ago, when all but the very top level players here were going to college and being limited to 20 hours/week to spend on soccer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Weird they have all those players listed on their roster then. If you go to the Anaheim Angels team page, you don't see AAA players listed. Unless they have actually came up and played.ajt said it best-American soccer is garbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 That could be. But it's not the main reason the US is not a world soccer power.Ahh yes it pretty is the main reason. I’m a well read of American soccer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balco Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 The pay to play system is failure. Add in coaching eliminates development and all about winning. Kids that are most ready and more developed are picked out Vs technical players with most potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRWager Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Fútbol was born in England just like rugby(American football)and the USA. Talk about sophistication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAUS Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 I'd rather beat my cok with an axe handle than bet this shit on a daily basis Or offer forum-wide blow jobs if a pick loses. BAUS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangover Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 The reason why USA sux at soccer is because here its a upper middle class sport. Our poors instead see football, basketball, and even baseball to some extent as way up the ladder. There is a reason why so many of the best pro atheletes come from the lower classes of society.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milwaukee mike Posted June 20, 2018 Report Share Posted June 20, 2018 Do Asains have better table tennis coaches are do they just value the game more over there? i'm also concerned about the level of basketball training in our rural areas... with enough training i'm sure some of our whitest people can grow a foot and have better moves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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