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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US lost in a sudden death penalty shoot-out to a traditional European power. Oh, the humanity![/quote]

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was the first time Netherlands participated in the U17 World Cup. Not to mention Netherlands is smaller than the state of Virginia. [/quote]

This and the fact that North Korea (out of ALL the countries in the world) won the WC last year should be an eye opener.

Called it when USA female team won the last senior World Cup with help from the refs (cue those two penalties against Spain).

[b]It’s time to accept that NOW that the rest of the world decided to also promote female football the USA will NEVER win it again. If you think otherwise you’re delusional or too hardcore nationalist.[/b] [/quote]

Wow.  That's a [b]BOLD[/b] prediction.  Look, there are a lot of flaws with the US system.  But, I think, in the US the sport options are still such that you have a ton of the high end US female athletes playing soccer.  I do agree that as the traditional Euro/SA powers have woken up and have started funding women's programs, they are catching up fast.  But, there still seems to be a stigma in many countries with women's sports.  There a lot of issues going on now in La Liga F and funding women's programs and how the men's programs are drawing down the women's funds.

I haven't invested time into researching this, but it would be interesting to track through these countries the players that are on the U17 teams and then appearing on the senior teams.  Also, how much more time are these other countries national teams training together as compared to the US teams.  I think the big struggle is that you have US players are these ages coming from Club, College and Pro that are all playing their own systems with their own goals.  The "US Way" as it's talked about is tough to implement when you have such limited time with these players.

What I will say though, is once you are in, unless you are complete mess, you continue to be in.  That is continuing to stay on the radar, continuing to be tracked, continuing to be part of things even on the perimeter.  Will be interesting to see how this moves forward.  
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