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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look professional Soccer, like all sports is very competitive. It’s a job. Playing in the minor leagues like MLS is easier vs one of the major leagues. The major soccer leagues of the world are like playing in the NFL or NBA....you have toPreform a high-level every day or you lose your job[/quote]

Contracts in major Euro leagues are just as guaranteed as they are in MLS. Actually moreso. And considerably less than in the NFL, where you can miss a field goal on Sunday and be unemployed on Monday.

Players who lose their giant contracts at Manchester United go on to sign only slightly less giant contracts somewhere else. Players who lose the contracts at MLS go for their real estate or coaching licenses (or both).[/quote]

No only a major star will get another contract after a bad year or over 27. Soccer players peak another 24-26 and have an average career length of 8 years. If most sign at 17-18 year old, add 8 years and you are out of the league. I think you are confusing the few elite players with the regular players. It is very competitive and someone is always coming for your job. The MLS is not like that. A USMNT player can hang around a long time in the MSL. [/quote]

Actually, since the sport is global, you will find plenty of clubs looking to hire you if you played in Europe, just not the ones anybody on forum would recognize.  I'm talking about the third tier of Denmark.  Granted, at that point you should quite, Freddy Adu unfortunately has played for 13 different teams, currently he plays for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USL, which is technically 2nd tier in US even through US soccer won't grant it 2nd tier.  Your point remains, but there are still plenty of options if you want to continue playing in your late-twenties early-thirties and you're nowhere near superstar status.  [/quote]

Actually, the USL is second division now. And Freddy hasn't had a club for a year. I think he's done.[/quote]

The thing about Adu is he wasn't actually a product of US soccer training, he played in Ghana and when his mom won the green card lottery, he came here and decided he wanted to play for the US and before that DC United signed him.  He played on various youth national teams, but my sense is he learned all that he needed to know from playing around in Ghana.[/quote]

Which all goes back to the Jordan Morris decision. 
Adu (or his parents or reps) decided to take the sure money instead of pursing an opportunity that would have made him a better player. 
A little different for Adu, as his opportunitiy would have been to enroll in a great team's Academy system for no money, but I can still see the parallel. [/quote]

Not quite that simple. FIFA had just started its crackdown on teenagers moving to foreign countries.[/quote]

He signed professional contract at 14, which I would consider child abuse.  He didn't have good advisers watching out for his development.  Every body just took their pound and sent him packing.[/quote]

He also lied about his age.  He was actually older.  Happens frequently when there are no proper birth documents.[/quote]

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