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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD has played 8 games in Europe and they had to play much older teams to get decent competition.  At U13 they had to play U15 teams and at U16 her club team beat a U20 team 5-1.  The US club girls side is much stronger than the same age Euro clubs from what I saw.  I'm thinking the boys side is a different story.  [/quote]

This is correct. I’ve witnessed the same thing.  The US is much stronger on the girls side, but the opposite is true on the boys side.  Both for cultural reasons. [/quote]

I assumed OP's child is a bit older, as they are traveling. The point that US soccer, for boys, nobody cares for girls soccer in Europe, don't understand is that nobody, I mean nobody is actually focused on winning at the young of an age. It is used for footwork and skill development. That is a common thread in junior sports in US, winning is the only thing that matters. After 16, things change in Europe, and even that might be too early to tell who will rise to the top. Read this and then you will know that coaches don't care, they are often not in it for private lesson cash, but for long term success of their players on the pro scene. As for women's soccer, well, yes, nobody is disputing US is the champ, but why is it that there are so few pro soccer women's clubs in the US?
https://www.soccertoday.com/youth-soccer-european-vs-american-player-development/[url][/quote]

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