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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is more than one way to build a winning soccer team. Each country should lean into their strengths instead of trying to copy what others do when you don’t have the necessary ingredients. US strength is athletic players so that’s what we lean into. It’s worked in the past. Germany plays a different strategy from England from Spain from Japan from Canada from the US. It’s always been like that[/quote]

The problem is “leaning into athletic players” has stopped working.

Spain has proven this.[/quote]
It’s not really a choice. Athletic is our best chance. We can’t build a program to play like Spain in this country. We just don’t have the necessary knowledge, culture, history, infrastructure, coaching, to draw from. We have to be realistic.[/quote]

By continuing to select Athletic over high iq players US Soccer is signaling that’s the type of player and playing style they prefer.

Other countries will continue to build on what Spain has done and America will lose more and more often.

Sigh… US Soccer needs a house cleaning. 
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Spain is just applying what they’ve done in hundreds of years of mens soccer to women’s soccer. We don’t have that ability. Even if we selected different players we wouldn’t know what to do with them. The problem is the US doesnt  have all these high iq players to choose from like Spain where soccer iq is part of the culture [/quote]

While this may be true.

Not addressing and putting effort into being competitive at the highest level isn’t going to work.

I guess US Soccer just has to lose before they get with the modern game.

Btw my daughter is mid sized, has normal speed, and is on the younger side of 2010. When she’s on the field the team scores. When she’s not they don’t. It’s been like this for multiple teams. This is because she’s been playing field since 3 and futsal (year round) since 6. She’s never received a Talent ID invite because these are not the type of players US Soccer is looking for. What I see a lot of is big fast forwards and big defenders. Something is wrong with this picture. There’s a whole spectrum of talent that’s being overlooked.[/quote]

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