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[quote=Anonymous]"I don't have a network telling me what to say anymore. God it feels good!...

That player played bad...

[network] Choose your words a little differently because we  don't want to lose that partnership."

Replace partnership with paying families with two or three siblings at the club. Club directors telling coaches:

Choose your words a little differently because we don't want to lose that family's $$$. Don't move that player down. Give that player lots of playing time or he will complain to us...etc.

This is exactly what is wrong with soccer clubs, at least here in the DMV. You have clubs who have inept players in U10 - U18 who are not supposed to be in those top teams (MLS, ENCL or GA). But since their parents have two or three kids paying $3k+ a pop you have directors telling coaches not to let them go or move them down because that would mean money out the door. And so you have the great players with committed parents carrying the team and oftentimes losing games because of weak players.

Usually, excellent coaches have no saying as to who they get to pick for a top team. These coaches are the Wynalda's of network tv. You can't say anything truthful or you are out of a job. Directors will fire you.

Unless we have a true academy that covers 100% the cost of development as an investment then we are fooling ourselves. This is a lucrative business, end of story.

You also have these MLS Next - GA - ECNL monopolizing the market and so superior local teams/players are left out because they cannot afford or are blocked by these organizations.

Wynalda speaks with authority and speaks the truth that everyone else is afraid to speak because they have a vested intere$t.

Keep creating videos like these Wynalda. That is the only way our country can change the way we develop our players. Hopefully it changes in the future so we can put our country on the as a leader in creating world class soccer players.

The truth hurts.
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