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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many reasons for the poor performance. None of which has to do with youth soccer.

Florida is about 1.5 times bigger than Portugal.

The Netherlands is larger than the state of Maryland, but smaller than West Virginia.

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Didn't make OP but I agree youth soccer is the problem, specfically pay to play soccer with ECNL/GA. You're arguing numbers, I'm questioning mentality. [b]US should be amazing at everything because of our size and financial investment into sports[/b]. Pay to play creates individualistic selfish players, who don't utilize their teammates, don't make selfless runs to open up channels for others, don't press as a team, and are only concerned with that Div. 1 soccer opportunity that paying to play in ECNL/GA affords them. This system works for 90% of families, so its not changing. That 10% are disgruntled delusional parents who think their kid is better than they are, and the truly elite players who may be happy in the moment, but realize their soccer education ended after U-18 soccer when they go to college because they trusted their soccer education to US soccer moving forward, which has continually demonstrated that it cant be trusted to navigate any of this correctly[/quote]

Youth sports is a big business because of pay to play.  The national teams are investing relative drops in the bucket into youth sports and US Soccer doesn't have the resources to set up their own system. US professional clubs have no interest in doing and and don't have the money even if they did. [/quote]

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