Originally posted by Unregistered
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The kids are not being developed at a young age, that's the only real answer. Go to any travel soccer club in FL and look at how they train, it's truly awful. Some kids don't even belong there but the clubs need the paycheck from the Benz and Bimmer crowd.
It might be a tiny bit better at a DA but not a whole lot better. They train kids to play like robots and are mostly focused on big and fast. I've been to tryouts and saw the process and choices they were making. This is where the U.S puts the emphasis, fast and strong, not soccer skills and vision, hence the results.
Why go on....this is an old story and they need a major overhaul and change of mentality. Even at local DA's the coaches are not so great. Maybe in the MLS DA's they're a bit better but the whole structure is wrong.
They need 200 MLS teams all over the country like most soccer nations, not 20 for a country of 300+ million. They'll never discover talent this way. And if they think the local (non MLS DA's) are the solution then we're headed down the wrong road. They're only producing marginally average players...
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