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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CP is our best player, and he can’t even crack the starting lineup at Chelsea or Dortmund. That is the problem. We’re just not very good. We don’t play soccer on the streets and in the playgrounds for hours and hours, day after day, and night after night like our young b-ball and football and baseball players do. Here’s a question, how many US dads teach their kids how to throw and catch a football or baseball or dribble and shoot a b-ball vs. how to kick and trap and dribble a soccer ball?  I played soccer and taught my kids how to do that and even coached their teams when young, and guess what ... one is on a girls ECNL team now. But, I played. Not a lot of dads and moms out there yet that played and know the game. It will take another generation or two for this to turn over, if ever. [/quote]

Lots of people do that. You do know we live in an area where at least 1/3 of the people are immigrants from soccer-loving countries, right?

I'm tired of the whole BS "Americans aren't good at soccer" line. Do you know who's not good at soccer?

Gregg Berhalter, with his 39% win ratio
His brother, who created a toxic working environment at US Soccer
Dan Garber and the profit-hungry owners he represents
Carlos Cordeiro, who knows so little about how to reach out to Hispanics that the Mexican NT has opened an academy in LA
and Earnie Stewart

Get rid of them and start from scratch and you'll see how good Americans can be at soccer.
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I agree with you on the US soccer coaching and admin front. I also know there are a lot of immigrants that play and teach their kids, but they are forgotten and left out or, to your point, are courted by their legacy countries. Also, I think 1/3 is a bit high of an estimate. More like 15%. At least that’s what BLS states. Anyhow, the Men’s team has a ways to go based on the other night[/quote]

As a team in the middle of the pack, the US generally has benefited from the flow of dual nationals, drawing less-skilled players from legacy nations with strong pools and better players from legacy nations which usually have no chance of qualifying for the World Cup. A dual national like Sergino Dest, who's got a decent chance of making the Netherlands starting XI, is exceptionally rare. Our biggest problem is with other CONCACAF nations, especially Mexico, where the competition for dual nationals is strong and USSF's efforts have been pathetically weak. https://theathletic.com/1302170/2019/10/17/usmnt-legend-hugo-perez-on-his-new-role-with-el-tri-and-how-u-s-soccer-needs-to-improve-latino-outreach/

Unfortunately it gets worse. Compared to other nations, US Soccer's development programs are worse than nothing, because they're all pay-to-play. 25 percent of the people in the DMV are foreign-born, mostly from nations where soccer is the #1 sport, and there are thousands of kids playing in youth leagues throughout the area from age 5 on up. The local MLS team doesn't give a crap about 99.9% of them, and US Soccer does nothing for them whatsoever, except allow a few selected individuals to pay thousands of $$$ a year to play in DA. An exceptional player who's also a dual-national has every incentive to go back to their legacy country for development so as not to waste their talent in a system that doesn't care. And the kids who aren't dual-nationals never really get the chance to compete at a high level unless their parents are rich enough to buy it.

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No the other countries will not touch them....they have been contaminated by the US soccer system. It’s like touching a baby bird...the mother will not take them back. [/quote]

Looks like the KNVB would be very happy to have Dest back in the nest.  :D

And while we're on the subject of the KNVB, have a look at the former third-rate player and KNVB reject US Soccer thinks is qualified to be in charge of youth development.  :evil:

https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/79201/nico-romeijn-and-ryan-mooney-on-us-soccer-coachi.html[/quote]

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