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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While this particular U17 team may not have great athletes (who knows based on this one result), I don't think the problems with US men's soccer come down to the athletes playing soccer.  We are traditionally strong at the U17 and U20 level and then lose ground at the full NT level(relative to our strength at the youth levels) when team tactics and soccer IQ are equally if not more important than the athleticism of our players.  The problem is we don't properly identify, develop and maximize the talent we have.  This comes down to coaching at every level.

While I did not watch this entire match, what I did see after they scored early, was a team playing slow, plodding, aimless soccer much like the full NT did against Canada a few weeks back.  [/quote]

No one intelligent who knows anything about soccer buys into the "US soccer sucks because we don't get the best athletes" nonsense.  Almost of our challenges stem from the fact that we have pitiful coaching resources compared to soccer super powers, which leads to the problems you mention.

One thing that is an extremely positive recent development is the number of kids now going pro both here and overseas at young ages.  Even a decade ago, almost none of our U20s were pros; now, almost all of the U20s and a good number of the U17s are.  That will make a big difference over time (probably a long time, but still). [/quote]

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