The New World Soccer Conundrum: Why Old World nations dominate men's soccer and a systemic proposal for homegrown New World relevance

New World soccer fans in the U.S. and Australia have been made to wait a long, long time for men's soccer in their own backyards to announce its presence with any real authority. Much longer than they should have been made to, it turns out. For a couple of nations with a history of flattening their competition and stealing their lunch money across a spectrum of sporting arenas, their inability to replicate similar results in men's soccer is odd to say the least. There has to be a reason the men's version of the sport is the exception to the rule. It turns out, the age old excuse employed throughout the New World for generations of, "The Old World is just better at this than we are," is complete nonsense. Utter balderdash. A fabrication employed to placate the unrest felt by each and every New World soccer fan for decades. There is no sacred soccer secret being withheld from the New World. There's no conspiracy afoot. The only thing standing between the ever pervasive New World Soccer Conundrum and a serious men's soccer presence in the New World is a self-imposed condition of existence. The New World Soccer Conundrum highlights why men's soccer in countries such as the U.S. and Australia has repeatedly and consistently failed to live up to its potential. The book identifies: • The critical underlying causes behind the sport's slow ascension to the middle of the men's soccer bell curve in these two otherwise stellar sporting nations. • What is behind the hold up in the athletic scheme of things in these and every other New World soccer nation on the planet. • How the determined stance on the development and promotion of soccer throughout the New World has stymied the sport's progress and gift wrapped the attention of the majority of the sport's physical, emotional and, most significantly, financial support for a handful of Old World soccer superpowers. • Why it's almost impossible for any other than a select group of Old World nations to win the FIFA World Cup. • And, where New World nations, in particular Australia and the U.S., have to begin to instigate and incorporate more appropriate practices into their soccer operations in order to see their beautiful game fulfill its potential.