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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The USMNT struggles have less to do with coaching and more to do with talent. The top countries have full rosters of starters playing in top Euro or SA leagues. The US have a handful of guys that struggle to start in Europe and no one that is a bona fide international star on a top EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga, or Serie A team. That is the difference. Even Costa Rica has a couple guys that play big time ball, like Navas that played with Madrid. US has never had anyone close to a starting role on a team like that.

MLS has done a decent job of raising the median level of pro US players, but at the top of the international game it will never compete due to money differences. Many of the US top youth athletes don’t stick with soccer as they get into their teenage years. Instead they switch to other, more lucrative sports in the US. They don’t seem too want to stick with soccer and try to earn the milllions that Europe offers, preferring to try more traditional US pros sports with the same level of money. Add that to the fact that US Youth soccer is a pay to play sport and that the money is not there to consistently pay for top young talent to play like it is in AAU ball (again due to the limited financial upside for those that might pay for those kids). So the entire poor rural and inner city populations are driven out of the equation. We are then left with suburban kids, that have decent homes and lives already and don’t have the hunger to practice and train like fiends to become world class.

In a nutshell, the USMNT will always struggle due to alternative pro sports that offfer more money and drive the potential superstars to play other sports at critical ages. This is why the USWNT is so much more successful than the men, those alternatives, largely, do not exist ... so the top women athletes stick with soccer. Hence, the US wins at women’s internationally. [/quote]

This is exactly right [/quote]

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