[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

soccer is the most played amateur league sport in the US, both for kids, in secondary schools, and with adults. However, it is not the most professionalized sport like basketball and american football. there are several native born Americans playing in Europe the way there are plenty of great Europeans in the NBA. However, me and a friend were JUST now talking about this during the US game today. US has always had the talent to compete with any team in the world. The problem has been that under Bob Bradley US never had that killer edge. They played too safe. They didn't play to their fullest potential. For example, USA was down 0-1 and two years ago I would have told myself, "Ok, our hope is to draw. We just need one goal." Under Klinsmann after the past six months, I literally told myself," I know we can win this." What was the final score? 4-1 USA wins. That being said, this is a new US team. Our coach has developed our talent. We never lacked talent. Our farm system is fine. Our domestic talent is world-class, we just never took ourselves serious enough to capitalize on it. We were like pre-2010 Lebron James, everybody liked us anyway, win or lose, so we didn't push ourselves to our potential. Klinsmann has brought our killer instinct out. He is reminding us of how the rest of the world snickers about our team. Fuck that. I hope ALL of Europe and South America have been watching USA games since January and been getting nervous, and should be telling themselves, "Shit, the fucking American finally figured it out."