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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have all the players train and play in Europe.  Better yet if they had dual US citizenship and grew up there.

That’s how the Men are starting to reverse course  :lol:

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Problem of course is that training for girls in Europe is not comparable to what is available for boys. The highest transfer fee paid for a female soccer player is €250,000. As a result, there is currently no financial incentive for clubs to train and develop girls in Europe. In fact, in many cities in Germany, France, Spain and England, there are no girls teams at the youth levels. Good young players have to play on a boys team. If you talk to US citizens who have spent a few years in Europe for work or military, they will tell you that US is much better, with many more options, for youth girls soccer. As much as many like to poo-poo US soccer development for young girls, it is still better than the alternatives in other countries.

That is obviously not true on the boys side, where the financial incentives are in place for much better identification and development of boy soccer players in many countries, with the US far behind. [/quote]

I got inside the La Masia girls side while in Barcelona.  And it was as impressive as the boy's side.  The real training center.

Barca's hierarchy made the decision to insert their U-12's and U-14's girls teams into their respective age groups male leagues.

The result? Complete and utter domination from the U-12 squad.

As reported in The New York Times, the girls ran havoc throughout the season, winning the league at a canter with a gap of fourteen points.[/quote]

Sorry, hear is the link about that above.  Obviously U12 girls are way more ahead physically than boys of the same age (11).

https://www.sportbible.com/football/news-barcelona-under-12s-girls-team-entered-the-boys-league-and-dominated-20190606[/quote]

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