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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the points people are making here are interesting, but I don't think they are realistic or constructive. Soccer and youth sports in the US are different than the rest of the world. That's a strength ! We should lean into our strengths and not try to imitate something we are not and will never be. The US formula can work in other sports. It works fairly well in women's soccer. Focus on what we can be great at and design our strategy, development, and rosters based on those strengths. Differentiate based on strengths, not a watered down version of somebody else.[/quote]

Women's soccer works because of title ix. Now that pro leagues are starting to gain traction in europe, I doubt the US keeps its edge on the women's side [/quote]

Who cares about an edge?  That is not girls soccer in the US.  It is about college not pro.  Most do not care if we have some national edge.  The product here is different.  [/quote]

What product is different? How?[/quote]

Women's soccer in the US is built on collegiate soccer being the end goal, if you have ever watched a college soccer match you would see that it is night and day different than what is needed to play internationally. Nobody cares about the national team. This will change however with all of these new rules coming out for collegiate sports.[/quote]

Nobody cares about the national team? Hook me up with whatever cocktail you are taking to cloud reality, please.[/quote]

You must be new around here, most parents on this board don't care about the successes of the national team, only if their kid can get into college.[/quote]

What kind of low-brow board is this not to care about the national team?[/quote]

You'll be surprised. You should dig into some of the old threads where people debate how collegiate soccer needs to change. It is the one part of the pyramid that doesn't make sense and doesn't prepare players for the international level or the pro level really. Collegiate soccer does not line up with FIFA, and when discussing the NT you're basically referencing a fraction of a percent of players, so most don't care. But to be competitive on a world stage, the game must be taught to be played the right way and players need to be developed in that manner, the way it is currently is geared toward collegiate play.[/quote]

If you don't care about the national team, then you really don't care about soccer.[/quote]

ok.  Most incluidng those playing do not care about soccer.[/quote]

Which is true when your goal is college soccer[/quote]

You can tell how serious a player is about going pro by whether they watch professional soccer and whether they enjoy doing that. If you’re not watching/studying, college is the goal [/quote]

Not even about going Pro

If you don't really like the sport outside the social aspect, why put in so much effort?[/quote]

No one said the kids don't like the sport.  They love it.  But the goals are to play to have fun or to paly in college.  They watch the national teams but college is the end goal -- as it should be.  [b]Only an idiot would play women's pro soccer.  same is true on the men's side except there is some money to be made.  Neither like NFL, MLB, NBA, or even NHL.[/b][/quote]

Village Idiot found[/quote]

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