How Could USA Get "the Best Athletes" to Like Soccer?

Why the unasked question goes unasked.

I’ve heard a million plans on X this week for how the US should and could get “our best athletes” to win the World Cup for America. Many people disappointed by the U.S. losing once again in the Round of 16 are suddenly very vocal about how the U.S. needs to train the Best Athletes from age five to be fanatical soccer players.

In reality, a month from now when the NFL preseason gets rolling, most Americans who got worked up about Team USA losing to Belgium will have more or less forgotten about the World Cup until 2030.

And that’s fine. There are a lot of sports in this world that are only worth following when they contest their world championship or Olympic gold medal every four years.

Yet, let’s think this through this Best Athletes question.

What stands out about these We Get the Best Athletes demands is that I haven’t yet heard a single plan for how to persuade African Americans to care about soccer.

It’s the usual confused conventional wisdom imposed on American discourse by the taboo on public discussion of human biodiversity.

Everybody in America sort of knows that when we talk about “the best athletes” we are basically talking about blacks. But we aren’t supposed to say that because it implies that there are significant racial differences, which is a no-no.

And because they aren’t supposed to talk about Nature, their opinions on Nurture tend to be unrealistic.

So American soccer discourse never gets to the crucial problem with all these plans for getting the best athletes to win the World Cup for America, which is …

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