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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a bit of a leap to say she wouldn’t have emerged from the US system. You’re talking about a 1 of 1 generational player. Other countries with supposedly better systems (England, Germany, …) don’t exactly have players like her either. Players like this are so rare it’s hard to say how much is just raw talent vs the system. If it’s all the system then we’d be seeing a lot more of these types of players coming from those but they are still so rare it has to be something more.[/quote]

Nope, I don’t think so. The US selects NT players based on a set of skills/qualities that differ from the rest of the world. Listing a few of these  here:
a selected player
- plays from a team from CA/TX
- is picked by the club coach to  ID camp.
- the player who has been sent to ID camp since he/she was 14yo, selected by the club coach
- the player whose daddy built a turf field in their back yard, homeschooling to spend the full day practicing 
- the player who moves teams because the  new club TD has connections with USN folks
- etc.
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