The US could have a great soccer team and soccer could get really big here.

The thing the US National Team misses is a defining type of play....running the 1-5-4 won't help the athletes you have at midfield at all unless you're pressing some up in attack. Landon Donovan certainly didn't have fun trying to work the ball up field during the last world cup because those guys crowd up the midfield.

I would love to see the US adopt the style of play of England or any of the EPL teams. Long crosses would fit the team well and allow us to use speed.


As for Adu not being able to do his stuff vs guys like Makelele....well no fucking shit, Makelele is a friggin tough defender. But then we'll never know unless Freddy is given the chance and bad defending or no some of the plays Adu made on those vids were damn good....he has a good first touch