Former LA Galaxy coach Ruud Gullitt admits he is dismayed at the lack of football culture in the USA.

The Holland legend, who had an unsuccessful nine-month stay with the Galaxy beginning in late 2007, cannot believes certain aspects of the game in America and attributes some of that to his downfall as LA coach.

"When USA is playing at home, they don't play at home. It's unbelievable," he said. "Certain people don't want to acknowledge it so much because everybody wants to protect the American sports, and I can understand that. But everybody knows football is coming. Everybody plays it everywhere. I think it will be two generations - then people will get used to it, understand the game more. This generation still doesn't understand it."

Gullitt admits he felt uncomfortable with his US$6million three-year deal because it did not fall into MLS' regular standards and added that he was not up to scratch with the different rules that were used in the US.

"For the amount of money that they normally pay, I don't go from Europe all the way to live here. So therefore they need to find sponsors. But who knows Ruud Gullit in America? Who would pay that amount of money? And the moment that you find out nobody wants to pay that, that's where all the trouble starts," he said.

"It was too much of a clash between my way of being used to working and the rules of the MLS."