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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tragic

Those kids will go to better colleges than your kid. [/quote]

Why so triggered?[/quote]

I don’t think dragging 14 year old kids is a great look. They got to the final. Played against a club that pulls players from every corner of spain [/quote]

PDA hadn’t lost a game in two years up till that point, playing in the top league against the top teams in the top women’s soccer nation in the world.

One game against Barca and they didn’t even look like they were playing the same sport.

Keep making excuses, keep burying your head in the sand, keep thinking the USWNT has an insurmountable lead on the world.

To stay on top you need to be the best in all three phases of the game:
Athletically
Technical 
Tactical

We produce athleticism but we are falling behind in the other two phases.

You keep pointing that it is just 14 year olds and that is true, but that PDA is the best example of what a dominate, top youth club team in America looks like. In comparison to Barca, PDA was not prepared tactically and were severely out coached by Barca by a mile. And not just on game day. That Barca team played disciplined and consistent throughout the tournament.

If PDA represents the best example of our formative youth system in comparison to Europe or Spain, who have all only invested in the girl’s youth game in this past decade you must recognize that we need to bone up on our tactical and technical aspects more.

So, to tie this argument back to the point of the main thread, our girls are not as technical as they should be. Soccer requires technical play to truly exploit ones athletic ability, but none of it means squat if you don’t really understand the game and the different ways it can be played and appreciate the different ways the game can be played successfully. [/quote]

It's just one game and conclusions can't really be drawn.   That PDA team was also playing teams that didn't use the style of play that Spanish teams use, so they hadn't had much preparation for it.  If your argument is that Barca's style of play trumps more athletic styles of play, why is it that they have so much trouble in UCL on the men's side?

You are drawing way too much from a single game.[/quote]

They represent the best of youth club soccer, from players to coaching. If they were better developed over the course of years, if they had played against other teams/clubs that put the same emphasis on technical and tactical development as they do on winning to gain rankings PDA would have been better prepared.

The sad thing is they had likely NEVER seen a team that was that disciplined and proficient in a possession style before. THAT is the problem. They played like they had never seen that before and they likely hadn’t. THAT is the problem for the US going forward, not the results of one U15 game.

Collectively we can’t and won’t commit to playing a more sophisticated style. We use World Cup victories as a reason not to evolve. [/quote]

One game!

SMH[/quote]

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