[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  GOLZ TV [@golz_tv](/creator/twitter/golz_tv) on x 1994 followers Created: 2025-06-15 20:36:10 UTC Is diversity of the U.S. hurting American soccer? Former USMNT defender Alexi Lalas had this to say 🗣️ “We often talk about our diversity and we talk about it as one of the advantages we have.” “But with diversity comes diversity of thought. If I go and ask a hundred soccer people out there on what’s beautiful soccer? I’m going to get a hundred answers.” “It may be based on ethnicity, where you grew up, even geography. All of these different things.” “So I’ve argued that the homogenous nature of some other countries and cultures just in population in terms of size are much more manageable.” “There is a collective understanding and more importantly, an agreement in this is how we’re going to play.” “But getting XX men to represent this great country of XXX million people and all be on the same page, that is very very difficult.” “I’ve argued before that maybe our best route to actually being better from a men’s perspective in soccer is actually being more exclusive, not being inclusive.” “If you went to the New York metropolitan area or Southern California and took players that all grew up in the same area, that would be better in terms of an understanding.” “This melting pot fallacy that I’ll be the first to admit, I bought into. I’m not saying it can’t happen. It just takes a lot longer and with a lot more work. And especially when it comes to a national team, you don’t have time to be able to do that.” The USMNT haven’t beaten a “big” team in the World Cup since Portugal in 2002. Despite players now playing in better clubs, the results haven’t followed. Lalas was asked what he attributes that to, and that was his answer. [via First Things First]  XXXXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [get a](/topic/get-a) [Post Link](https://x.com/golz_tv/status/1934349232410144823)
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GOLZ TV @golz_tv on x 1994 followers
Created: 2025-06-15 20:36:10 UTC
Is diversity of the U.S. hurting American soccer? Former USMNT defender Alexi Lalas had this to say 🗣️
“We often talk about our diversity and we talk about it as one of the advantages we have.”
“But with diversity comes diversity of thought. If I go and ask a hundred soccer people out there on what’s beautiful soccer? I’m going to get a hundred answers.”
“It may be based on ethnicity, where you grew up, even geography. All of these different things.”
“So I’ve argued that the homogenous nature of some other countries and cultures just in population in terms of size are much more manageable.”
“There is a collective understanding and more importantly, an agreement in this is how we’re going to play.”
“But getting XX men to represent this great country of XXX million people and all be on the same page, that is very very difficult.”
“I’ve argued before that maybe our best route to actually being better from a men’s perspective in soccer is actually being more exclusive, not being inclusive.”
“If you went to the New York metropolitan area or Southern California and took players that all grew up in the same area, that would be better in terms of an understanding.”
“This melting pot fallacy that I’ll be the first to admit, I bought into. I’m not saying it can’t happen. It just takes a lot longer and with a lot more work. And especially when it comes to a national team, you don’t have time to be able to do that.”
The USMNT haven’t beaten a “big” team in the World Cup since Portugal in 2002. Despite players now playing in better clubs, the results haven’t followed.
Lalas was asked what he attributes that to, and that was his answer.
[via First Things First]
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