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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crowning jewel of the US Soccer Development Academy[/quote]

Abso-fikin-lutely.

After 10 years of the DA program, the best we can manage is this? An utter and complete embarrassment and should cause (but won't) an examination of why our style of play is always so poor and how the DA is hurting, not helping the development in the USA. [/quote]

The DA has lead to far more US players going overseas to play for better teams.
The fact that US coaching is so bad that it doesn't lead to better National teams isn't on the DA, it's on the coaching. [/quote]

DA is useless because US Soccer and their MLS masters are useless when it comes to player development. They created a system where well-off parents pay through the nose to get soccer education for their Messi wannabes, while MLS owners sit on their greedy butts and wait to draft them out of college. Meanwhile, less-well-off kids are left to fend for themselves. In Brazil, a poor kid with talent would have teams fighting over him.

It works for the US women only because hardly any other nation invests much in the women's game.

And please spare me the tired old cliche about how soccer is a "minor sport" and American kids aren't interested. There are plenty who are. And if you think we can't chew gum and walk at the same time, look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Croatian_NBA_players

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