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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development.  Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience.  Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).[/quote]

I think some of you need to seriously stop talking about stereotypes, assumptions and how things used to be.

You obviously aren't really following or knowledgeable about elite youth soccer over the past few years since the birth of MLS Next 
USYNTs have been doing very well against European and other International competition. 
MLS academies have been doing very well against European academies in tournaments, friendlies and international matches. 
The results aren't hidden.

Currently, it's when we get to the Seniors levels you see the gap widen.[/quote]

That's because we are short term investors in youth talent in the US.  We take the fastest and biggest kids and put them on our national teams and have them run hard and tackle hard but don't reach them how to use their minds.  At the younger ages physical dominance plays a bigger role because there are huge gaps in physical development of the same age players and we.phusically dominate opponents.  Why we are successful u15-u17.  Once the physical advantage wanes at older ages and the kids have to actually play they are now going up against kids that have been using their minds and skills to solve problems for years instead of their braun and our teams fall behind.  Short term, we look like we are successful.  Long term we are not [/quote]

Get over yourself soccer fan/parent.  Who is the "we" in this statement?  You're not involved in the selection process and don't know anything about it.  You're just parroting what hear on boards like this and maybe what you think you see in our national team players.   [/quote]

You may not like how it was stated, but he/she is on the money.

The physicality helps us greatly to have good results against international competition at youth levels.
Yes, our kids have some talent and skills too.

But after U20 and the tactical understanding and IQ becomes more important since everyone is big, fast and strong. We struggle as a collective. [/quote]

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