His goal changed soccer in the USA 

30 yeara you mean ?

However, right now, the USA are rebounding with a decent campaign and are on track to return to the show, but they will need to boss the January and February matches.

@@Bongaboi151in a LOT of ways missing the 2018 tournament could’ve been seen as a blessing in disguise… got rid of that Bruce Arena debacle and flushed out the old guard who didn’t take Qualifying seriously…

1954

Lol, why does this comment sound like a Wikipedia sentence? (The comment sounds like we don't know what happened)

SERJiCAL Took a violent backward turn

It is rising, however today’s kids, the next generation, are the ones whom are currently being exposed to the true culture of world football, turning the usual US talent of eye hand coordination to eye foot coordination, along with all the tradition that comes with football.. US will be world football powerhouse by next World Cup! Only thing left is to include relegation in the local league and to rename it MLF or MLAF.

We've been hearing this for 50 years.

Exceed nah it would never be called football as long as we have America football. It will always be called soccer in the states. I like soccer but I don’t believe it would ever rival American football in the U.S. in terms of popularity.

MusicAficionado we’ll see, it’s hard but not impossible, the popularity that the sport has in the country rn it’s already impressive (for the USA) and it still growing

now trinidad and tobago broke our dreams of going to russia

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i met him today he is a very nice guy

Yes yes he is

Did he charge you for extra guac?

Jack's Drawings it’s called football not soccer

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Terra Europa they should call their kind of football as american rugby

Soccer is an abbreviation of "Association Football" that derived from England during the 19th century. Usually when I bring that up, the football elitists hush up.

Rinto Julian Rugby is short for Rugby Football. That's were American's get Football from. Most think Football is called football cause you play it with your feet. But actually it's because you play it on foot and not horseback.

2017

When they failed to qualify* for Russia 2018. Good time. Ow yeah!

When they only need ONE point against Trinidad and Tobago and they lost by 2 goals to 1 .

2017

When they failed to qualify from CONCACAF. He is talking about some major result, dude you qualified from CONCACAF after 50 years and you are not a country, you are a continent. And he does not see that he is part of the problem. Pay 2 play system is no good for football.

+Just a WARLORD Progressing past the group stage is a mighty feet for their standards. That's what makes them entertaining to watch. I'd hate to see them slip and go back to being utter shyte.

Don't even

Im Belgian too and I agree with the Warlord... Btw: BELGIË NR 1

+tgee88 we all know the fifa rankings are bogus. Its worse than the BCS rankings. Why even use that as a reference. But yeah, england is better. duh. but man theyve been on the back burner recently.

And it doesn't have substance cause it's a bogus ranking system. I don't get what you're so upset about. I said you're better than us. But really. When was England's last strong run in a tournament ?

Developing the academy structure is in process now, as US Soccer is affiliating with different club organizations (outside of Braedenton), as MLS clubs are working on their own academies now (like Real Salt Lake and DC United) it will be interesting to see how this all works out in regards to the national team. I agree that we need to get more creative as a squad, and also it's clear we need to develop technical ability (especially with speed and in tight spaces), I think tactically the US has a much better understanding of what they need to do, it's simply a matter of not have the ability to do so on the highest stages. This world cup I saw that same fight from the US that I love about them, but it's at a point now, where we will get no further on desire and physicality alone. Now is the time that the real work begins, 2018 should be the a great showing for the US.

Greg Spradlin almost there, a few more months and 2018 is here.

This didn’t age well at all

A lot of people don't know that and always se the "well there wasn't as many teams as there is today" or "it was the first World Cup" hey it was a FIFA WC so its Legit.So US has gotten further than a lot of favored teams around the world

So thats an achievement? Going back nearly 90 years to get 3rd, what a joke!

+BasqueNYC "US have gotten further than a lot of favoured team" hahahaha where did you pull that out of, your arse? And for the teams you mentioned was them winning not getting to the semifinals 90 fucking years ago, get a clear argument first or just accept that the USA's presence in football is almost no existent.

A Fire Inside you clearly don't understand, there is a world of difference between getting to the semis of a tournament in any time period and actually winning it, the fact that they haven't even got past the semis since the 1930s is absolutely a joke, NM actually winning the tournament.

+Kyle Preston it's a growing sport and beating out even NBA and NHL in attendance and results like that are good for the USMNT even if it laughable to other people.Nothing wrong with other countries loving the sport that along with Japan,South Korea national teams goring it is truly a global sport and that's a good thing.As for the US it seems no matter what will happen in the future even if they mad a World Cup final (not sure that will happen soon but anything is possible) people always makes excuses for the team "well the other team wasn't playing their best" or "the ref was horrible" I never seen such hate towards a MNT and don't quite u derstand it.I myself am not a US born citizen (born northern Spain) and I don't consider myself a fan of their team but I will wait ch when they play and surprised how they are progressing as with other MNT as well I love watching was ching the underdogs in the WC.Be interesting what happens in 2018 I'd like to see the return of Poland qualify

haha USA sucks

I think did have the potential which is why there was 6 consecutive world cups. Nowadays the competition is suffering from youth leagues. There is no drive to win because everybody gets a participation trophy and more and more kids are quitting sports at younger ages. With American football you have a near religious pocket of community support. Soccer doesn't have that, not in America. I see only a decline for US soccer unless overseas nationals playing in the MLS or elsewhere declare their intent. With all the recent political immigration changes I find even that to be less likely to happen in the future.

kende zx With all the parents going crazy about protection I think soccer will start to grow quite a bit.

Get rid of pay to play and watch the USA pump out talent like crazy.

"diversity" "culture"

The decision to give USA the World cup 4 years later was already decided long before Paul's moment depicted on this video. He even refers to it.

MRr3n3gade And USA not making WC 1990 would have been an abject disaster and there was talk of moving the '94 World Cup had USA not qualified for '90, as a host who hadn't made a World Cup in 40 years would've been absurd (and why Qatar should not be hosting 2022 having never made a WC and also being disgustingly corrupt).

MRr3n3gade True, but they were still thinking of taking it back. In fact, FIFA engineered the firing of USSF head Werner Fricker and the replacement with Alan Rothenberg (who had overseen soccer for the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics).

Unless they make it to 2018, when all could be forgiven

Quentin 33 Mexico did not played the qualifier for WC 1990, they were suspended

folladordeprostis yesi know. I was talking about the 86 WC in Mexico.

Mexico qualified for being host

folladordeprostis Yes i know that. But i'm surprised Canada got the Concacaf spot instead of the U.S.

soccer was extremely unpopular in Usa back then

Matthew James Proof or it never happened.

hockey?

No I think he means Nascar?

Football. Not soccer

It's what I say it is. If you don't like that..You can post again!

+Khaled4life-

Monkeyman Soccer stands for Association Football. The term derived from England during the 19th century. Both terms are correct.

About that....

Trever Philips lmao

Nops well people make a giant deal over it, so just say soccer to mess with someone

No... actually it's called ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

Who cares? American players are unimportant and his name could be spelled Mediocre Hack.

is it even a victory when T&T didnt even go to Russia? the only thing going for them is making Mexico humbled in that one tied game.

@@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift what is your point? We were knocked out already and the U.S.A had all to play for. And your research on all the games we ever played Mexico, you'll be surprised. Smh