Is Title IX The Reason US Men's Soccer Is Average?
As I am writing this (Friday, July 18), the FIFA Men ’ s World Cup finals are this coming Sunday; Spain vs. Argentina. Now, this may come as a shock to some of my older friends, but I will be watching. Never having been much of a soccer fan in my youth, the sport has grown on me these last few years. This will be my third World Cup in a row! Thank you...Thank you very much. Trust me, no one is more surprised than I am. One of the reasons I say that is because the United States men’s team is quadrennially...boring. Unlike the women, who have also succeeded in becoming boring, because they win so often; the men are boring because they do not. They cannot even sniff the finals, let alone the semi-finals! Now, I read a piece not long ago in some newspaper by someone who was describing what it takes for a country to be elite in soccer. This guy typed things like “large population,” “lots of money,” “large infrastructure,” etc. Well, we have lots o...