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Originally Posted by mikev
I think that's the inherent problem with US Soccer. There's tons and tons of rugrats that are running around playing soccer when they are little, but the development programs are awful compared to the rest of the world.
Granted, a good number of athletes are lost to Football/Basketball/Baseball, but the ones who stay and continue with footy are the ones who truly love the game and, IMO, their country has failed them by not developing them into world class players.
Does that fall on Bob Bradley? No.
Also "Clark's moment of idocy" is probably a bit much. It was a dumb tackle attempt, but was in no way deserving of a sendoff.
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I have written on this several times. Those hundreds of thousands of rugrats have only really exsisted in the past 10/15 years. Give it another 10/15 years and you will begin to see the payoff of all those numbers adding up.
But yes the U.S. does need a extensive youth league that picks the best of these youths and places them into leagues where they can face one another.
Programs like Generation Adidas are helping as well. But even that program has seen about 50-60% of its players go no where. Scouting soccer players is a tough buisness.