Jordan Older is the 1st American to join a team in both Brazilian 1st Division (Serie A) & Paulista Championship 1st Division (Serie A1). USMNT training camp.
My former teammate Toninho (Toninho Cecilio)... former Palmeiras captain/manager also for many other great teams, also played for the Brazilian National Team (A Selecao.) Also coach of the Brazilian Paulista League Serie A2 winning team! Best wishes to my friend.
@cecilio_toninho
"In America even a fool can have 3 homes, but it's a problem when that fool doesn't want you to have 3 homes." - Greg Gutfeld speaking about Bernie Sanders and socialism
NYC business owner just said the police did nothing to protect his looted business in Soho. He went on to elaborate and say that the police were literally around the corner in a group just standing around while the looting was going on and he had to drive over several times...
I had the luck to meet Carlos Alberto during my time in Brazil. Very nice man. I count no less than 11 passes building up to this all-time great goal from 1970. Brazil's defenders were better dribblers than most, if not all, of today's mids and forwards. Something to aspire to.
I can't believe this. No wonder the USA has failed to qualify for the last 2 Olympics and the last World Cup. Here is "the best MLS academy" and they couldn't recognize a future million dollar+ player, cut him, devastated him, sent him home crying.
Firmino never played 1st division in his home country and has won the Champions League and scored the 2nd goal vs Argentina and Lionel Messi to put Brazil into the 2019 Copa America final. The Copa América is the oldest international continental football competition in the world.
People forget that the beauty of soccer comes from the local city or village teams competing against other cities with local players, local heroes. The glitz and glam of CL and EPL has made people forget this and makes today's soccer somewhat hollow and missing something.
Amazing to me that a kid from a tiny farm town in the midwest USA in the 1970's and 80's could share a locker room with players like this. What a dream. Pictured is Zico, other great Flamengo players, and my former coach Fernando Matos.
How is MLS supposed to improve soccer in the USA when 99% of MLS coaches and their academy coaches are the same college coaches from 20 years ago, just with more grey hair?
Made me smile. My friends actually played with this guy at Gremio. Unfortunately for American kids, you'll get kicked out of the academy team for playing like this, but don't let that stop you. Thanks to Carlos Menjivar for sharing.
Youth soccer participation is dropping, probably due to high costs of pay-2-play clubs. I just had a mom message me on Twitter telling me how she was paying $10,000 a year for her son to play in the DA and it wasn't a good experience. Things need to change.
England's Harry Kane actually fouled the Colombian player first. Most fans who never played soccer don't notice this. In reality the Colombian player was just trying to recover and Kane/England created this foul. England couldn't even score a goal other than a Penalty.
The day after this movie premiered on TV in the USA in 1980/81 every kid in town wanted to do the "rainbow"... even more than Pele's Bicycle. Maybe because it was more of an achievable technique. Overnight the rainbow became the "go-to" skill move, at least in my part of the USA.
MLS called him the most overrated player in the league and tried to publicly shame him then benched him then ran him out of the league. Team USA stopped playing him then failed to reach the 2018 World Cup. USA still doesn't have a single player who can do what he can do.
I never met Roberto Carlos, but I went to practice every day in his car. He was developed at my club Uniao Sao Joao EC in Brazil but was playing for Palmeiras by the time I was at Uniao.
@KamalaHarris
@JoeBiden
Don't forget that Biden and Harris bailed out the rioters, including rioters charged with MURDER and convicted of RAPE!
Why would they bail them out if they think riots are bad?
I'm thinking of launching an online soccer training service. It will include training programs, tips, and advice from former top pro coaches, players, and agents from Brazil and Europe. What do you all think?
MLS has put pro soccer much further away from the local American player than it was when I was starting out when there was no major pro league in the USA. At least then it was more grassroots and local American kids could get seen, at least.
Americans can learn this. It just takes a coach who's been there to hold the players to a high standard. Problem is that even the best former player coaches quickly forget the high level that they came from in Europe or elsewhere when they have spent a lot of time in the USA.
Tom Brady hardly played during his first 2 years of college football since he was 7th on the depth chart at Michigan. He never quit and was later drafted 199th in the 6th round of the 2000 NFL draft.
Now he's won 6 Super Bowls and is still playing at 41.
American soccer has always selected the popular players and coaches and the rich kids over the better players. This made soccer into a popularity contest. Instead, we need to select the best players, which we are still not doing, and worry less about who the coach is.
To win we have to play the best players available and get past the nepotism and politics. Can American coaches read the stats list on the MLS website? To win we have to play the best players available and get past the nepotism and politics.
Christian Ramirez only played 53% of available minutes in 2019 and was traded in the middle of the season but still ranked
#2
in MLS for American strikers in Game Winning Goals (GWG.)
I've been saying it for a while. Mexico has one of the top leagues in the world and a very skillful style. They can be as good or as bad as they want on any given day.
Just heard it was more than 125,000 people in attendance at the Trump rally in Miami tonight. 175,000 watching live on the RSBN live stream.
That's a lot of people! VOTE TRUMP!
American soccer is failing. There are only 3 American born players w/ 10 or more goals in the reg season 2018. How pathetic! This is why USA didn't make the last 2 Olympics & the last World Cup. We need a lot of playing time for Americans so they can compete and see who is best.
Convo with a USA soccer fan who thinks it's national teams' job to develop players.I say it's the pro clubs job to do develop players and the national team just selects the best players at the time. This is how it's always been done. Strikers with 2 goals should NOT be called up.
Drafting a player
#1
that isn't in the top 10 in any of the stats kills the competitive spirit, making pro soccer in the USA more of a popularity contest than a real sport. We need to reward those who perform the best, not just who are liked the most.
The goal of professional soccer trainer is to maximize fitness and ability and minimize injury. In the video is a training session of Real Sociedad in Spain.
Neymar haters, try this. Let your biggest friend slide tackle you at full speed from 10 feet out. Then send me a message from the hospital and tell me how it feels.
How prominent is doping in football? Arsene Wenger: "In 30 years as a coach, I have never had my players injected so that they might perform better. I’m proud of that. I have played against a lot of teams who were not in the same frame of mind."
In the USA they expect a soccer player to come into the team fit and ready to carry the team on the player's back. In the rest of the world the clubs carry the players to the first team... European clubs create the players who then fit into the club system unlike in the USA.
Over-full stadium in Wisconsin and over 61,000 online viewers watching the Trump rally live stream on the Right Side Broadcasting Network and Trump hasn't even arrived yet.
I counted 4 American players for Atlanta & 3 American players for Portland in the 2018 MLS final. That's just 32% Americans who played in 2018 MLS Cup. These numbers make it almost impossible for USA to field a competitive national team.
I didn't vote for Trump,but at some point people should put their petty and selfish preferences aside and ask themselves what is best for the country,not for themselves or special interest groups.That's what this is all about,what is best for the country.
Brazil’s Pele is hoisted on shoulders of his teammates after Brazil won the ninth World Cup final against Italy, 4-1, in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, Mexico, on June 21, 1970. Pele, who scored the opening goal of the game and assisted two, wins his third winner’s medal.
I'm a life-long Democrat. I didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but because of all this I'll be voting for Trump and Republicans in 2020. Just watch the video. It's time to say no to these Democrats who aren't doing their job, just investigations.
Full video:
Ukraine has a population about the same size as California and the American media is afraid to say the word lose or lost in the headline so they use words like "stifles" and "drops" to make it seem better. Folks, it doesn't look good for American soccer.
"Only those who can afford exorbitant fees are able to play soccer in America.Sure, there are a few scholarships here and there for those families without thousands of dollars at hand for their kids to play soccer, but that’s the exception, not the norm."