In soccer we don´t trust - world cup 2014 in rio de janeiro

What to expect from the football team from a country whose president has the favorite sport basketball ? A country where the population prefers baseball? Can repair : only were world champions nations where football is the number 1 sport ( Some people will talk about cycling in France and Bullfighting in Spain talk . . .)

But Americans are damned . Tireless in the art of getting in other people's lives to defend democracy - the fact that it always be connected to economic interests and benefit his influential defense industry is just a detail - the U.S. also decided to meddle in a sport for which I take the minor way.

Part of the way they have to face things : find that putting a truckload of money , any business going forward . That was how they did with the men's volleyball in the Los Angeles Olympics in 84 .   would win the gold medal at home, invested a barbarity , assembled a strong team like hell , and benefited from the absence of the Eastern European countries , won . Only today they did not realize the difference . In volleyball , if you have 2 feet tall and trains a lot , seen a good player . In football , if you do not have that inexplicable gift of birth, no use .

It seems that the passing of David Beckham at Los Angeles Galaxy filled the gas personnel , and Major League Soccer is growing every year. Last season , the Seattle Sounders was the club outside of Europe with the highest average attendance in their games - about 40,000 . But football is not in the blood of the guys , and import  superstars is very little to change the sporting culture of a country . It may be that one day happen , but it will take .

The U.S. did not get out of a World Cup since 1990 Small wonder : . Their only decent opponent in the playoffs is Mexico and vacancies are three plus a fourth competitor to have a second chance in the repechage . More or less the same explanation for Emelec play the Libertadores every year . If not him, who will be ?

There are no highlights on the American team - Donovan , Dempsey and Altidore are the best known , call them highlights would be preposterous - and great features are the tactical rigor and collective game . Both work to some extent and will hardly follow the U.S. for the quarter-final , as his group assembles Germany , Portugal and Ghana .

Anyway , do not forget to see the U.S. team play . It'll be easy to understand why Barack Obama 's love of basketball.