Originally Posted by BCWWF

I hate to say it but the World Cup doesn't really give a good picture of where American Soccer is today. Beating Portugal was huge, so was the tie with South Korea, but we still lost to Poland didn't we? And Mexico isn't the toughest opponent to face in elimination. Granted we did play pretty well against a good German side, and that one goal was stopped by a hand ball, and their only goal was on their stellar set play unit, but still. A lot of the good teams didn't do too well in that tournament, Italy, France, and the Netherlands didn't even make it. It did show that we are definately coming out of the closet, but we still have a ways to go to compete with nations that have the EPL, Seria A, or Primera Liga feeding them.