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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Awful.

It's the feeder system here.  The best kids don't even make it into our system in the first place.  Pay-to-play and politics has been at the heart of US soccer and US Youth Club soccer for DECADES.  I see it all around me.  The same rosters.  The kids with great potential in their youth walking off after the Clubs focus on 10-15 kids out of 100 kids in an age group.  Ignore the rest.

Coaches that understand very little about development---or if they do they need to show 'wins' from the earliest ages or get canned...so they go with the biggest, most physical kids before these kids have even hit puberty.[/quote]

The OP understands what went wrong with the Olympic qualifying campaign. If you think we don’t have the players to qualify and do well in the tournament itself, you have paid no attention to US men’s soccer over the last few years. [/quote]

DP.  I agree with the PP. Sure our best U-23s were not playing, but were are a huge country with plenty of soccer participation, and should still have been able to field a team capable of qualifying, regardless of the availability of the players under contract in Europe. The approach of picking athletes and teaching them soccer doesn't work, as evidenced by the play last night. Their touches were terrible. They couldn't string passes together. Balls were passed out of bounds. Poor decisions. Frankly, it's exactly what most of us parents see in youth soccer - focusing on the wrong things and picking players for their speed and strength, not for soccer IQ, technical strength, and above all - heart.  [/quote]

Thanks.  And the fact they have to go to Europe is another indication that we have failed consistently since the 1980s.  I mean—wtf???  41 years since soccer took off in this country and our men still couldn’t qualify for the Olympics?[/quote]

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