Is the Dutch speed skating coach right about American athletes?

[Alex]

Isn't Aussie Rules the dominant code in NT too? The Tiwi Islands produce a lot of good players for their size.

Yes it is. But the population of NT is only about 250,000. That's less than Canberra by itself (which is very small too!)

 

[Mus]

Sudan also produces somewhat decent players

 

[Back Door Skip]

I didn't watch the video, but if an athlete had elite speed, why the fuck would he participate in speed skating?

 

[jschuck12001]

Haha...well if you listen to most of the interview, his point is quite simple. The best US athletes aren't in speed skating.

Whats interesting is how it frustrates him, I think some get angry at us because we have developed our own sports and our focus is on those sports not the ones that are most popular in other countries.

 

[Bobby]

Money. It all comes back to money. He realizes that if speedskating were big in the US there would be more money in it for everyone, especially celebrated coaches like himself.

 

[Bobby]

I give him credit for this though. Barely anyone in the US knew who Jillert Anema was two weeks ago, they do now.

 

[Mus]

Whats interesting is how it frustrates him, I think some get angry at us because we have developed our own sports and our focus is on those sports not the ones that are most popular in other countries.

This frustrates me a little too. With all your population funding and coaching you should be able to produce at least 30 champions league caliber players instead of 1-2 per generation

 

[jschuck12001]

This frustrates me a little too. With all your population funding and coaching you should be able to produce at least 30 champions league caliber players instead of 1-2 per generation

I agree, it sucks knowing you will never have a chance to win the world cup.

 

[Alex]

I agree, it sucks knowing you will never have a chance to win the world cup.

Never say never. I think football in the USA is slowly closing the gap internationally. It will never be number 1 or close to it in the USA, but you could easily have a golden generation.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

 

[Mus]

Never say never. I think football in the USA is slowly closing the gap internationally. It will never be number 1 or close to it in the USA, but you could easily have a golden generation.

We already had ours

 

[Alex]

We already had ours

Any we got ripped off in the round of sixteen

 

[jschuck12001]

Thing about the World Cup is that Cinderella teams may make the final 4 but they never win.

From beginning to end its the most difficult and grueling competition to win, at least in the sports I'm familiar with.

 

[Alex]

Thing about the World Cup is that Cinderella teams may make the final 4 but they never win.

From beginning to end its the most difficult and grueling competition to win, at least in the sports I'm familiar with.

Yeah, but it's football. It's a low scoring game, so there is always the chance of a boil over. Greece won Euro, that's a good example.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Yeah, but it's football. It's a low scoring game, so there is always the chance of a boil over. Greece won Euro, that's a good example.

Denmark in 1992 is a good one too for the EUROs.

 

[Mus]

Any we got ripped off in the round of sixteen

We deserved to go out

 

[Alex]

We deserved to go out

Yeah we did, we should have scored a goal earlier against ten men. That said, Guus has subs in the shed ready to go, and I still think that wouldn't have been a penalty if it was France vs Italy instead of Australia vs Italy.

 

[jschuck12001]

Yeah, but it's football. It's a low scoring game, so there is always the chance of a boil over. Greece won Euro, that's a good example.

I remember that, Greece played that bunker down style of football like the USA used to play and they would execute on the 1 or 2 scoring chances they would get.

Klinsman has changed our playing style so we score more goals now but we also give up more goals than we have in the past.

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[Mus]

Yeah we did, we should have scored a goal earlier against ten men. That said, Guus has subs in the shed ready to go, and I still think that wouldn't have been a penalty if it was France vs Italy instead of Australia vs Italy.

The penalty France were awarded in the final was more marginal than the amateur challenge put forth by the Aussie captain

 

[Alex]

The penalty France were awarded in the final was more marginal than the amateur challenge put forth by the Aussie captain

Viduka was captain, not Neill.

In any case it was a bad challenge, but it was also a dive. The challenge made no contact until Grosso wanted it to.

The French penalty also wasn't in the final seconds of stoppage time. Plenty of non-Australian pundits agreed it was a very rough call. In football referees are generally very hard on Australia, simply because we have a reputation of being very physical.