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So let me get this straight, Klinsmann told American players to leave MLS and go play elsewhere to develop and people got mad, and then they fired him and put someone in charge who only picked MLS players and then they failed to qualify for the World Cup out of the second-worst continent? Is this what happened?
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The solution to MLS problems is easy: get rid of all the rules making it like other American sports leagues and instead make it like every other football league. Promotion and relegation, no conferences, no salary cap, no league ownership, no playoffs, no draft system. The American league system is an archaic dinosaur that only works in other US sports because there are no other good leagues for those sports in the entire world, so fans of the sport are forced to watch the dumb end product and the cracks in the system are papered over because they have a monopoly on good players. In a sport where the rest of the world clowns the US, those US-style sports things just hold everyone back. You need teams that are motivated to do well because otherwise they get relegated, you need teams investing in developing youth rather than drafting poo poo 22-year-old college players, you need teams playing the other good teams in the league instead of the ones that happen to be geographically close to them, you need owners who want to invest in their clubs and aren't prevented from doing so by rules that say they can't spend more than X amount paying players, you need teams to not be willing to settle for 8th place because that still gets them in the playoffs, you need good players ending up on the same team because it's the ambitious one with the investing owner rather than sending the best player to the worst team in the league, and so on and so on. American sports structures are garbage and stupid and MLS has exposed this for all the world to see because there are actually other football leagues on the planet that people care about.
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Oct 12, 2017 14:09
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Jack2142 posted:S'land
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Oct 12, 2017 22:31
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I think we can all agree on one thing and that's that if American athletes like Hulk Hogan played football America would not have missed the World Cup
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Oct 15, 2017 03:56
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wicka posted:Lmao, perfect timing: lmao at everyone who expects that america can just keep doing its american sports thing while actually being globally competitive
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Oct 17, 2017 14:24
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Solkanar512 posted:So why is it that the USWNT seems to do so well in comparison? A combination of Title IX and lack of development of women athletes around the world? They're one of the only countries in the world that takes women's sports seriously and actually pays their female athletes so they can train like professionals
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Oct 18, 2017 19:45
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