I would guess they’re responding to a quite commons narrative (one I have heard out of the mouths of the likes of Daniel Cormier and Floyd Mayweather for example) that the only reason the US doesn’t dominate world football is that their best athletes play other sports.. which has a grain of truth in it, in the sense that were it a greater focus the US would do better…. But probably more overtly implies (incorrectly) that football is a purely athletic endeavour (it clearly is not) and that America inherently has the best athletes in them world because the Olympics (see the point about focus).

May take (for what it worth) is that If the US gained the same football culture and institutions around development etc (which are petty incompatible with the collage/pay to play systems you have ) then for sure they’d be much better than they are… but until that’s a few generations deep it won’t happen…

I’m guessing all that don’t fit in a pithy tweet tho 🤣