Take on the US Soccer blackmail

There is no more appropriate end to the United States' relatively early exit from the World Cup than the ness that emerges that Gregg Berhakter was being blackmailed by the parents of one of his players because they wanted their son to get into the starting lineup.
We can talk about soccer not being a national sport, about losing kids to football and basketball and about the cost of club soccer making it unaffordable for a large portion of our population but nothing explains our overall soccer failures more clearly than the over zealous nature of soccer parents. We never let the game breath, we constantly want more from every portion of it and we don't allow the kids to just be soccer playing kids And apparently the same thing goes for not so young kids on the national stage.