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Kids in Europe start at U7 at the academies and are in professional academy environment and start breaking into first teams at 16, 17.

Guess who has a better chance to develop into a quality pro?   [/quote]

Umm, I know!  The kids who grow up in a mature soccer culture, such as those in Europe and South America, where there is a very strong, well established professional hierarchy in place to develop and identify talent, providing players with the incentive to make soccer their primary sport, and for clubs to find the best talent to strengthen their player base and their balance sheets, in the long run.

I wonder if soccer forums in India and China also bemoan their "underperformance" in international play.  I mean, c'mon, they have several billion people between then vs countries of 20 million kicking their butts!   Or maybe they are intelligent enough to realize that their soccer culture and system isn't as mature as that in the better performing areas in the world, therefore the numbers don't mean much.

Yes, that's probably true, because there are a lot of smart people in those two nations.[/quote]

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