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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think other countries will be able to beat USA this year? It’s USA doing enough to keep winning championships? 
 I know football is growing a lot with girls in Europe and in Brazil and Argentina.[/quote]

I'd look at England giving the US a tough time.  I think we are falling behind in one area: Academy Development.  In England, they now have residential girls academies nested with the big Premier League Clubs.  Other clubs in Europe are now planning for girls academies as well.  There are a few youtube videos about girls in England at the age of 16 being selected and training full time at these academies.  I haven't read much more than this, but it would seem NWSL should have a developmental program on par with MLS's homegrown academy players.  In this regard, we are likely to see European nations start to advance their game more than the US in the next 3-5 years.

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There was a pretty lengthy article on Yahoo Sports a couple days ago talking about the USWNT pipeline.  Got into the whole DA failure and how with GA and ECNL and whatever else is out there, there is no straightforward path to identifying the best talent for WNT.  This in comparison to other countries who are closing the gap by modeling their women's programs after their men's programs.  U20 competitions were cited as to how our youth is not keeping up.  THe counter point was that we have such a huge nation with so much available talent that we can still maintain our level despite not having a better plan for identifying, training, etc girls from a younger level.[/quote]

The US is actually behind the European's at this point in developing players  The development in Spain is crazy. I have seen the women's barca team play. Those women would easily beat the USWNT 9 out of 10 times.

ECNL is not cutting. It is just a development league for college and college is way behind the Europeans. The majority of the college teams are not even competitive.

Women's European soccer is beginning to pay more and get bigger crowds. Look at the women's champion league finals last year. Spain is leaving a lot of their best players home b/c of the problem with the coach. It's a shame. That team would to run away with it.

The athletic gap has closed. Now if that is the way the US will continue you can not roll out players way past their prime. Prime in soccer being under 28. [/quote]

When MLS teams are worth as much as Premier League or La Liga teams and decide to field the breadth of teams that clubs do (FC Barca fields volleyball, handball, roller hockey, and basketball in addition to soccer teams) then the US can talk about development. Realistically, just like the Rangers aren't paying for roller hockey teams and the Lakers could care less about volleyball, MLS teams will likely never care about girls developmental leagues [/quote]

If you look at the valuations/market value of worldwide clubs based on the analysis of Forbes, Sportico, etc., there are MLS teams that are already there. The 2 LA teams and Atlanta are in the Top 20 of Forbes list. As much as most of us would like pro/rel, if you were a billionaire and a year ago had the chance to buy Leeds, Leicester or LAFC, which would you want now? Unfortunately, I think the US model is more likely to get exported (already has to Liga MX) than vice versa. Which means, ultimately, many MLS clubs (like our local one) are fenced in from relegation and content to ride the league’s coattails and not actually do anything to advance the youth game, for boys or girls.[/quote]

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