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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids don’t live, breath, and sleep soccer here. They do not watch pro games every weekend and dissect what happened, could’ve happened, and hoped to have happened with their buddies, friends, and schoolmates in school or at the park. [/quote]

Over the country as a whole, yes that's correct. But the level of intense (some would say, insane) parental involvement/interest that we chuckle at on these boards, however, indicates to me that, at least in certain pockets of the country (which is huge by comparison to most European countries) we do have "soccer crazy" families. I definitely here lots of talk at games and practices about this or that European club game -- so the soccer fanatics are watching here, too.

[quote]Let alone have them play pick up games at the park, at school recess (LOL), in THE STREET!!!![/quote]

I don't know. My kids play at recess and in the street. Not so much in the park, because frankly we rarely see enough kids in the park, but they do play outside of their team practices/games.

[quote]you can’t get to where others are by not imitating them. Sorry, the US will never be a powerhouse in soccer per se.[/quote]

That's kind of my point. What are Barcelona U9 (and frankly, the other U9 European clubs) doing already at U9 that their boys are far ahead of any of the clubs in NOVA, which is supposedly one of the pockets of strong soccer players in the USA?  I'm talking about the type of training, the type of coaching, the type of environment that make a U9 club perform at such a dramatically superior level.  What are they doing that we aren't?

[quote]Real talented American squad needs early prepubescent teenagers to have been scouted, picked, and ultimately have (and their parents too) the balls to jump over the pond into the old continent. [/quote]

Sure, we could run over to Europe and join their system. But why haven't we developed a similarly effective system here?  What is it?  Everyone in the DC-Metro area who talks all this big game about this or that club, or this or that elite league ... at a certain point, doesn't anyone scratch their head and look over at what the European kids are doing and realize that our soccer clubs look like daycare as compared to theirs?  There's enough money here, and there clearly seems to be a strong demand for development of young soccer players here ... why hasn't a solid development approach evolved to meet that demand here?

I just don't get it. [/quote]

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