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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I imagine foreigners are taking up spots on D1 teams that have a hard time getting the best American players. I mean from this area, often the goal of soccer is to get a leg up on admission to an Ivy League school as opposed to just playing soccer. I think you’ll see more foreigners at less academically known schools. [/quote]

You can see the rosters. The Ivies have many foreigners on their rosters. Just take a look. [/quote]

It's not just the Ivies. Even D3 schools (and not even super competitive ones) have lots of foreign recruits. We were surprised to see that. [/quote]
I just checked the rosters for the two teams playing in the national championship match tomorrow. Syracuse has a bunch (https://cuse.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster) but Indiana has just 1 foreign player: https://iuhoosiers.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster Have heard Yeagley is an excellent coach, which is why he always had strong teams despite recruiting mostly from the Midwest.

I except the number of foreign players to decline at Harvard in the coming years too.  Josh Shapiro is a great coach, and a lot of the players on the current roster were recruited by his much less capable predecessor.  Often the foreign players on a team do not turn out to be the strongest. Some coaches just have good pipelines to foreign players and are too lazy or underfunded to invest time and money in identifying and recruiting domestic players. [/quote]

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