The U.S. Men’s National Team have some catching up to do. While football has been played extensively throughout the world for more than a century, the sport is relatively new in America. As such, the players that play — and the overall standard of competition, by extension — do not compare to those in other countries, especially in South American and European countries.
However, as the sport has exploded in growth in recent years, so has the standard of play. And the competitiveness of the national team has improved in turn, with the current crop of young players as impressive and globally competitive as any crop before it.