Reply to Mediocre soccer players is what our country produces

Forum Index » Soccer

Reply to "Mediocre soccer players is what our country produces "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All MLSNext and "academy" teams are, for the most part, made up of mostly boys whose parents have the financial means to make donations to their clubs and keep the directors and coaches happy. The coaches that want to select talented players are shut down by directors. If we really wanted to produce quality players the clubs would get sponsors and provide skilled players, regardless of financial means, 100% free admission. But I guess that would not make the not-for-profit soccer clubs any money very quickly.

Just look at your club and tell me I am wrong.

And so, with this model, we will continue to produce mediocre soccer players representing our country in World Cups. College is a joke. All foreign students getting free tuition are the players on the team and staters.

The truth.[/quote]

Yawn. Thanks for this post from 20 years ago.
The MLS Next/Academy system has worked very well, and most of our National team, many of whom are quite successful in Europe, went though that system. 
The US isn't a top team yet, but they've been steadily moving up in the rankings, and steadily producing more and more top players. [/quote]

Why is it that the US is so successful in most international sports but they're not successful at soccer?  The summer Olympics? we're solid. The winter Olympics? we're solid.  Baseball - great. basketball - great.  Based off our population we should have the athletes to compete - so that speaks to a deeper issue of developing talent.  We suck at developing our youth soccer talent, why? because it's a Pay-to-Play model[/quote]

Have you been paying attention to what the US youth national teams have been doing in international competitions recently?
They have been competing well and winning. 
U15's boys just beat Morocco, Croatia and Japan to win a tournament

The true big issue is the transition from youth to Senior men's [/quote]

We don't have a domestic professional league that our players can strive for.  MLS? there's a reason why it's called the European retirement league.  There is a huge issue that our best players have to go overseas to develop - most of the Men's National team now plays in Europe (awesome for them) but we should be able to do that on our own.  But if they can't make it in Europe then their development stalls and our national team continues to suffer.[/quote]

In today's professional/International soccer, it's more about performance after 18 years old, while continuing to develop.
You better show up at 18 ready to work[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics