United States vs Spain | All Goals & Highlights | U19 Women’s Friendly | 31/05/24

United States vs Spain | All Goals & Highlights | U19 Women’s Friendly | 31/05/24
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[@aletapequena]

Watching this game, I can see what a FC Barcelona scout said about his impression on the US grassroots system. According to his experience, he said that the coaches in the US are paid to win so they field whatever players give them the best chance. When they are 10-15 yrs old the most athletic kids usually run over the smaller potentially more technical ones so the technical players are usually disregarded. In other countries, the focus is not so much in winning as it is in formation so the Iniestas, Aitanas of the world do not get sweep under the rug and can continue developing.

[@r2dad282]

There must be more responsibility placed on the USSF talent scouts that choose all these lumbering giants instead of technical players. We have so many, but they're always to slow/short blah blah blah. Nothing has changed in 20 years. We should be picking from futsal players starting at U14.

[@thesedreamsarefree]

@@r2dad282 So really you want soccer (football) to be like Futsal, just on a bigger pitch, which doesn't work. What are you going to do, outlaw long passes, passes above shoulder height, tackles, are we going to introduce travelling offenses? make the ball heavier as it was when I was a kid. They're different games. get used to it. Football has a greater variety of roles, tactics and physical demands: the better game. It was born in 1863 and already evolved enough to the point where you your futsal players already get too much protection. You love Futsal stick to it. I love soccer. Give me Catenaccio. That will take care of your futsal players. Soccer players need to be athletic and tactically adaptable. Soccer is not futsal mate.

[@thesedreamsarefree]

@@r2dad282 basically you want futsal to replace soccer, most of us soccer fans love the game the way it is and that involves physical contact, controversy, low blocks, counter attacks using space, pace and stamina, box to box midfielders, long balls, headed balls, just soccer the way it is. Stick to you dinky little futsal courts and the boring back and forth on a postage stamp.

[@r2dad282]

@thesedreamsarefree If you like Italian soccer, you have good reason for it, but the US is not Italy. Italy have good coaches. USA have crap coaches (of course there are exceptions). I'd rather have youth players get trained for tight spaces starting at U8, then transition to 11v11 at 14 or 15. Learning tight ball control must be done in early youth, else it won't be done at all.

[@qlrxhfldk12]

If Aitana was born in the USA, we might not be able to watch her play on the national team. College soccer is the same; they prefer physically advanced players over technically advanced players.

[@隆アンド]

今、スペイン女子は全世代で強い感じ。 個人技も凄いがゲーム展開が頭一つ抜けてる感じで、凄いわ！

Not just skill, also speed and aggression.

[@alexjvee6836]

I mean it’s Spain we’re talking about here 🤷🏻‍♂️. They dominate at all youth levels. If it would’ve been losing 3-0 to another team it would’ve been seen as a huge HUGE FAILURE.

[@r2dad282]

It's still a huge failure. There are plenty of players not chosen for the Nats that aren't so lame on the ball. when will the US learn it's easier to make a technical player a better athlete than it is to take an athlete and try to add on skills in their teens.

[@dolphmanity]

You have loser mentality. This is an epic failure for US Soccer.

[@jacinto_3365]

why u put an USA player instead of Spain in the tumbnail when it was the better team? ._.

[@acojone6110]

it makes more people click probably

[@lizusonesi]

clickbait ,more famous team in the thumbnail

[@jacinto_3365]

@@acojone6110 pero es mentira, ahí aparece una jugadora celebrando y no marcaron ni un gol xd

[@dirks6550]

Spain is doing it right in the women's game. USA had no chances and couldn't hold the ball. Yikes. No ball skills.

[@r2dad282]

...and yet no repercussions for the talent scouts that chose these players. so painful to watch....

[@MrSudeepdas]

This mentality of winning at any cost needs to change for the USA. Little girls must be taught to take care of the ball instead of their opponents. Physically bullying weaker opponents will become rarer as other nations start investing more in their women. When will Americans wake up and start playing modern technical football?

[@r2dad282]

when we get better coaches. But US coaches suck. I would know, I used to ref youth travel and state cup matches. Our coaches have always sucked because they have nothing technical to teach their kids, only tactical Xs and Os. And that;'s not considered coaching in Europe.

[@maxsolomon9187]

Spain’s real futbol VS USA college jock-soccer

[@r2dad282]

Blame USSF for choosing all these lumbering giants

[@aletapequena]

I hope this was the third tier level of u19 players from the USWNT because their level of play was abysmal. If somebody had told me that Spain was playing Malta instead of US I would have believed it. And all that against a Spain u19 "lite" without 7-8 of their regulars and with lots of experimentation with players playing out of their regular positions

[@petermaldonado77]

Give Credit where credit is Due!!!I think Spain is just that Good!!!

[@emilioaymat5651]

Spanish women players are the best. They are the current world champions in the regular women`s world cup as well as holding the cup for the U-17 league. Currently these the other matches the Roja team has been playin` are the EuroCup qualifiers which they beat Denmark the other day in that. And there`s no denying the talent in many of Spain`s younger players such as Alex Putellas, Aihone, Esther and that light skinned, mulatto woman from Zaragoza that is AMA-ZING -- she is SOO fast

[@emilioaymat5651]

If u`ve lived in Spain, soccer is in ur blood. And as good as players like J. Shaw are, they don`t EVEN come close to the talent and quickness of Las Rojas.

[@aletapequena]

@@emilioaymat5651 I am actually from Spain and live in Spain. It does not take away from the fact that this USWNT u19 squad is the weakest I have ever seen. And I do not subscribe all that "soccer is our blood not like with the yanks non-sense". There are good players everywhere and we spaniards do not hold the patent.

[@EdwinRua-r1g]

​@@emilioaymat5651creo que exageras en eso de llevar el fútbol en la sangre, España a nivel de hombres solo tiene un campeonato mundial, y desde el 2010 es que viene en progreso, de ahí hacia más atrás siempre fue una selección sin mucho pergamino..... si quieres ver pasión por el fútbol vente a Brasil

[@JimH-ey4ov]

Viva Espana!

[@stevebiology6210]

I'm so disappointed with this performance from the uswnt u19 team. I hope this team are not the ones going to the u20 world cup.

[@alexjvee6836]

I think the players who are going to the u20 World Cup are the players who are playing against South Korea u20 today

[@SD4...]

​@@alexjvee6836 that doesn't make any sense, why would they send their best squad against a weak team as SK and let their not so good squad against the European champions

[@aletapequena]

@@SD4... the u19 Spain team from this match is not the one going to the u20 WC either, but I agree with you that even they are not the actually u20 they would have made a better test.

[@alexjvee6836]

@SD4... I have no clue 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@javierluissantosrubio6603]

This Spain u19 is the one that will play the u19 Euro Cup in July and half of them will be in the u20 World Cup

[@stevebiology6210]

😮This is very poor from the US u19/20

[@emilioaymat5651]

Ya forgot to mention how Spanish women are just SUPERIOR players!! They currently have the Women`s World Cup and the U-17 cup amd recently have been doing great in the EuroCup qualifiers [UEFA] -- the other day they stomped Denmark.

[@SD4...]

Many folks in the comments don't want to accept the fact that the USA era of dominance in women's football (or soccer as they call it) was over the moment the big European clubs decided to professionalised their women's division. No big trophies for the USA against any European team in the near future

[@shawny5338]

It will take more than one/two tournaments to earn the respect of the 4 time WC champions. Lets talk after the next world cup and if your prediction holds, then I will get worried. For now, we have just had a bad coach for a few years. Sure, the rest of the world is catching up but that was always going to happen as the game became more popular/accepted in the rest of the world.

The USA senior team members mostly play in European leagues, so your argument is irrelevant.

[@shawny5338]

What? 4-5 out of how many? and my argument had NOTHING to do with the quality of domestic leagues.

[@thesedreamsarefree]

I think that's jumping a bit ahead of things. The USA has had a big advantage in women's football because the game was banned in much of Europe until the 1970s from when it had to grow from grassroots level until standards to improve which started to happen in the 2000s and now Europe has caught up putting it on a similar level with the USA at a time when USA is also going through both a generational transition and looking for the right coach. That said its daft to write US football which has a huge population from which 1.7 million females are registered with US soccer. If they do fall behind tactically in the short term they have enough of a player base and coaching systems to adapt and continue to compete. My guess is that they'll be in the top four in the women's game for a long time to come. Spain are setting the standard at the moment and that's the level the others have to aim for but with their human resources and the right coaching there's no reason the USA should be able to do that long term. Even if the domestic leagues in the US fell behind the competitiveness fueled by club rivalries in Europe there's no reason why the best US players shouldn't benefit by playing in those leagues. It already happens in both the women's and men's game. I wouldn't write off the US domestic leagues either, competition drives standards and falling behind internationally will do just that.

[@shawny5338]

@@thesedreamsarefree Well said. One thing that most of these European commentators fail to grasp is that its not just quality of the program or players alone that makes champions. It's the confidence and mental state that you can ONLY GET by winning championships. France and England have been touted as the best teams for how many years now and how many championships have they won? We have it and most of the other nations don't, not yet at least. To your point, last I checked a few of the WC winning players from Spain are playing here. I would just love to see more games between the the leagues in some fashion to maybe judge it better.

[@marcocortez5206]

USA kindergarden level

[@r2dad282]

We love our kickball!

[@stevebiology6210]

May be the problem is with the coaches.

[@emilioaymat5651]

No, there is no problem except that Spanish women play SUPERIOR soccer and as good as players like J. Shaw are, they don`t even come close to the talent of Las Rojas. Also keep in mind, that Spain holds the current Women`s World Cup and as well as the U-17 world cup and a couple days ago the national team played against Denmark in the Eurocup qualifiers and and again were victorious and totally stomped the Danes as if they were cockroaches. A coach is only a MINOR part of a successful team and the idea that leadership & authoritarianism makes a better team is an utter falsehood. It`s a matter of working together. -- A good team becomes good through working together inna MUTUALISTIC manner how las Espanyolas do.

[@r2dad282]

@emilioaymat5651 It's not talent dude. Our hispanics are just as good as your hispanics. It's soccer culture which you have and USA doesn't. Spain: 48M, GDP $2.5T per capita $52K. USA: 335M, GDP $28T, per capital $85K. By all accounts we have more of everything...except good coaches. Our bad coaches insist on playing kickball because it helps them "win". there is no culture of developing the player first and foremost. Our players are just as able at age 8 as yours. It's all the training after 8 that is missing. We'd rather choose all the Bill Waltons/Shaqs of the world and teach them soccer instead of choosing all the 5'-8" magicians. But yes, we are doomed because our FA refuses to manage the sport and only wants to concentrate on the national teams.

[@emilycrowder2412]

@@emilioaymat5651you come in here talking about your superiority, and yet the US and Spain tied their second game.

[@chuongbui7464]

What the Hell USA team?????

[@r2dad282]

USSF prefers to choose Thundra and all her giant friends. They don't believe in choosing players with ball skills, vision, soccer IQ

[@ClaudioSantiago-dr1kx]

Juega mejor mexico en norteamerica mexico empato con españa

[@alexjvee6836]

México Sub 20 o Sub 19?

[@angelsur]

Cada partido es distinto. De todos modos hoy no jugaba México que yo sepa

[@ClaudioSantiago-dr1kx]

@@angelsur mexico ganó España sub 17 y empató a España apena sub 20

[@angelsur]

@@ClaudioSantiago-dr1kx Esto es en sub-19 y que yo sepa no jugaba Mexico,no? no desvaries.

[@lizusonesi]

@@ClaudioSantiago-dr1kx mexico gano a españa en el mundial que gano españa (ese en el que colombia llego a la final)

[@stevebiology6210]

There are lots of young talents playing in the NWSL and other leagues in USA, why can't these girls be called up to play u20, why must the coach continue to use amateurs for u20.

[@alexjvee6836]

Players like Ally Sentnor, Savy King, Claire Hutton, etc are playing against South Korea u20 today

[@Evocati2008]

This was the US's 3rd team in the U19 division.

[@WilliamMunny1881]

This is the last minute team. Don't recognize any of them.

[@Marco-fl3ri]

This is Spain’s 3rd team as well 😂 Barcelona players Vicky Lopez Salma paraluello and more players didn’t play 😂

[@Evocati2008]

@@Marco-fl3ri are you stupid? this is a U19 teams?? meaning "under 19 years old". This is the US's 3rd team U-19 team, since others are in competition. You're talking about the senior women's team, which the US is 4xs WC champion, and 3 times Olympic champion.

[@SD4...]

​@@Marco-fl3riSalma and Vicky don't play for the U19 division anymore, they are part of the first team now, it doesn't really matter, Spain has plenty of U19 players that would beat the USA any day of the week 😂

[@Marco-fl3ri]

@@SD4... yes they too good for U19s

[@emilioaymat5651]

Exicting game but what kind of sucky cameras were being used here?! All the players seem really small and don`t tell me the station is too cheap to get zoom lenses

[@aletapequena]

not to mention the shakiness during the whole game. I was close to have motion sickness.

[@chuongbui7464]

What The Hell. Who the Coach of USWTN???Should look The New Coach????