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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the issue, the number of hours that the kids on u9 Barcelona have with the soccer ball added up over their lives is absolutely enormous. These kids have had a ball literally since they could walk, nearly every single day for hours on end. Almost exclusively, they come from soccer crazy families in a soccer crazy area surrounded by people who live and breathe for their local team they support.

Imagine growing up in the same neighborhood as where the Lakers play, you have all these fan traditions and people playing unstructured pickup games every single day of the week for hours and hours, kids dreaming of becoming a celebrity and becoming a big star and will do absolutely anything to get there, starting from about age 5 when they become aware of it.

These kids have been grinding and aspiring to be professionals since about age five or six, believe it or not. we see the same thing with basketball kids in this country with YouTube videos of 8 year old basketball prodigies, these kids did not just pick up a ball and start playing, they have parents at home grooming them to be the next LeBron james. Well soccer is the same way parents are grooming their kids to be the next Superstarso it is power driven, environment driven, and player driven. We just don't have the same thing here in the US with soccer that even compare slightly to the same situation. Not to mention that the financial awards are all so there as well unlike here[/quote]

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