Many Latin-African-American Citizens are not Joining Soccer Events to Represent the US

For Latin US migrants, soccer is a difficult career to succeed in. Latin-African-American citizens are not joining US soccer communities because of the controversies like racism and discrimination is common in these communities and had existed since the time that the United States of America had opened its borders to migrants who are seeking asylum.

According to the Latin United States men's national team participant and former coach of the national youth team Hugo Perez, he thinks that there is a lack of understanding towards the Hispanic or African-American communities to effectively cooperate with them and encourage them to interact with the soccer community in the US. He also added in his statement that when he tried to communicate and connect with the Hispanic-African-American communities to join the US soccer community he felt like he was not getting adequate support from his peers.

Numerous soccer players in the US do not get discovered by professional soccer organizations.

Some of the possible reasons for this incident are their lack of financial capacity to get a coach or trainer or the remoteness and condition of their residence. These soccer players with potential may not have the chance to showcase their talents and skills to many coaches or trainers because of the circumstances that they are suffering from.

Some leave the American soccer system because of the less support they are getting from their peers. Latin-African-American citizens are not joining US soccer communities because they may feel less valued compared to the players who are targeting to place in the Development Academy. Development Academy is a major league for the United States Soccer's elected elite youth soccer association.

Latin-African-American citizens are not joining US soccer communities to avoid controversial problems. These issues with Hispanic-African-American soccer players had existed for many years but are left untouched in many conversations by the US Soccer, MLS, soccer fans, and the entire media.

One reason for the denial of this long-time existing problem regarding the participation of these group of people in the US is the difficulty to solve the issue once it is brought up because of the size of the population of the US and the public image it may set to look as if it may be doing something to solve the problem.

The second reason for the difficulty in addressing this issue with the Hispanic-African-American population is that the competency and skills of the current members of the national team are well enough to require additional efforts to locate other soccer players all over the country.

In the current 23 USMNT Gold Cup players, four are of Latin origins and seven are black. This shows the minority count of the Hispanic-African-American players in the support. Though in the 1994 World Cup, out of the 22 players of the team, five were from Latin origin and only two were black. Even though the majority of the team are white soccer players, this data proves that slowly, the soccer community in the US setting is improving.