Mark Critchley
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10 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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So I mostly want to try that again.
Look, it's a nation of nearly 350 million people, I think.
Football is the fifth most popular sport.
And so for me, we're talking about, is it par?
Is it a success?
Is it a failure?
It's a crude way of measuring it, but
if we're talking about that level of country and that level of interest within the sport, get into the round of 16, get into quarterfinals of the World Cup, and fairly consistently, I would say that is about par.
I think the biggest challenge that the US has is a late start.
It's the fact that football, soccer is not embedded, ingrained within a culture that
as much as it is in other countries.
We all know that to be the case, but it's been something.
It's a growing sport.
It's the fastest growing sport in the country, but it is so really over the last 30 years or so.
And when you have nations like Japan talking about a 100-year plan to get to...
to get to the World Cup quarterfinals or whatever or semifinals or win it you know the US are on that trajectory they have a lot of things in their advantage at the same time because of the resources because of the population again because of just how much they can throw at it and you have seen them throw things at it and throw a lot of resources at it and
there's been improvement i think and and it is a hugely popular sport and it's with a massive with a huge population you're still going to get generate enough talent and there's enough players within there but i think it's about you know making more it's the same thing we talk about with any nation whenever they have a disappointing world cup result you know how do we develop players well it's more pitches it's more coaches it's more training sessions it's
You know, football is a sport that is very accessible and I think more accessible than a lot of the most popular sports in America.
You compare it to something like American football.
It's something you can do in the park, outside of the college system, outside of the education system.
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