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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Opposing view to argument in this thread that the system in the US is totally bad:

Despite the level on the women's side being a lot closer in the recent decade the women in the US still are at the top and are bound to continue so. They also go thru the pay to play system so there must be something right with injecting money and generating talent/wins. On the mens side with the amount of money being poured into soccer is just a matter of time the USMNT makes regular runs at the top 8 in the WC and MLS improves its quality. Investment will win in the long run. Other countries generations are not the same as they used to be. Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands are not that ahead anymore because modern society is changing how kids mature and how much they play free soccer (in the streets, etc). [/quote]

US Women/Girls had a big head start.

The rest of the world just started taking Women's soccer seriously and the gap narrowing is fast.

Comparison to the Men's side is silly[/quote]

Yep. I was on a woman’s travel soccer team- and traveling around the US in 1980–started playing in the dmv in 1974.  Yes- I’m old :).

Other countries didn’t even allow women to play soccer.  First world European countries it was a male only sport.  At a Man U game recently I was one of very few women in the stadium- zero line or anybody even in the woman’s room.

You can’t understand what it was like.  The DMV was the start and hotbed for women’s soccer very early with Mia Hamm, Jill Ellis, etc. US women were playing it DECADES before every other country in the world. [/quote]

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