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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can't go to Europe, go to Brazil[/quote]

European clubs start cleaning house at 11 and 12.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/sports/soccer/premier-league-youth-soccer.html
[quote] BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France — The road back to professional soccer begins in the dark.

Two hours before dawn on the first Sunday in September, a group of 11- and 12-year-old boys have piled into a van outside their coach’s house in London to start their 17-hour workday. Some of the boys have been up since 2 a.m. in order to get on the road by 4, and most don’t leave the van until it pulls to a stop in a parking lot in France five hours later.

Only then do the boys emerge bleary eyed at the Complexe de la Waroquerie, a sports facility in this coastal city. Their appearance at the Chti’s Cup, a competitive youth tournament, is the latest stop in what for most will be an unlikely (and in most cases, fruitless) journey toward a professional soccer career.

Several of the boys donning the sky blue shirts of this club, Focus Football, have already suffered massive disappointment in the game. Cut loose by England’s biggest clubs before they reached their teenage years, they now toil with a developmental program based in a high school sports hall that is a world away from the manicured academies of the Premier League.
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