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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans are very focused on winning at young ages and developing physicality over technique. So they choose tactics that might not be best for the young players in the long run. [/quote]

I think Americans would be [u]very[/u] receptive to a development academy or system that got their young players playing like Barcelona U9.  Not to mention, it would quickly result in winning -- does anyone think that their ECNL/NCLS/WTFever club team would seriously compete with Barcelona U9, or Malaga, or any club whose games you can watch from that tournament?

I get the sense (not having researched it myself) that the kids who play in the European club youth teams are scouted and recruited, and they don't pay (much) to play.  By constrast, here it's the pretty good / mediocre rich kids who are tapped-out and over-trained to their maximum potential who get all the attention showered on them at young ages (because their parents are forking over $$$), but as they develop they hit their natural God-given limits and remain mediocre. I get that argument.

But why isn't that true for basketball, baseball, hockey, football, and other sports?  I mean, money is always a factor, but nonetheless truly talented kids are identified and provided with a path to develop and shine that doesn't cost a fortune.  Why is is that soccer would be uniquely susceptible to this sort of detrimental influence from wealthy, mediocre players?   [/quote]

In Barcelona those are the best athletes in the USA our best athletes never touch a soccer ball simple facts.[/quote]

OK - I guess that’s about as good as an explanation as I’ve seen ... that it all comes down to just a very small number of generic “good natural athletes” and we simply have too few of ours playing soccer in the U.S.

It’s strange though, because most pro soccer players don’t look like obvious “natural athletes” ... they are fit and extremely skilled, but few of them look like they would be the type of boys/men who would excel at basketball or football.  In other words, if NFL-style football was popular in Europe, and basketball was equally popular in Europe as it is in the U.S. (it’s already popular in the EU, but let’s say it became equally popular) ... would those great soccer players really be the type of kids who played America football or basketball? I don’t know ... maybe.

I’d like to think that’s it’s not simply a matter of us squandering our finite number of “great natural athletes” on other sports, and that we have plenty of raw natural athletic talented that just isn’t being put to good use, but maybe it is just that. [/quote]

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