I'll grant his point that a U.S. soccer should be more competitive and defeat countries like Ghana.

But his suggestion that soccer is on par with other youth sports is wrong. There's plenty of kid's soccer leagues. But by the time you reach high school, all the focus is on basketball, football, baseball, or the other second-tier sports. Those are the sports where all the pro money is, and, unsurprisingly, those are the sports that all the good athletes gravitate towards.

Did you see that U.S. soccer team in action? The players couldn't even pass back and forth very well. I say it's largely because the great American athletes are working on passing a real football.