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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how come the US can produce top women's teams but not men's in the current system?[/quote]

Please read the entire thread before asking the same question over and over again.

[b]US Women started playing soccer decades before all other Countries[/b].  They got their *ss handed to them at the last Olympics and lost.  As these other Nations (the real soccer nations) catch-up, the US women are going to suffer the same fate because they rely on the same shitty physical style as the USMNT.[/quote]

not according to SI [url]https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/06/09/womens-soccer-world-cup-history-evolution#[/url]

[i]In the 20th century, women began to play more regularly. During the First World War in [b]Britain[/b], as women were drawn into munitions factories and into the professions, they emerged on the field as well. Female matches took center stage between 1917 and 1921, with teams playing in front of large crowds—usually between 25,000 and 55,000 people. Players like [b]Lily Parr [/b]became household names. On Boxing Day, 1917, the first [b]England vs. Ireland[/b] international took place in Belfast with representative female players from each country. An [b]England versus Scotland[/b] match took place in 1918, and [b]England played France[/b] in 1920.[/i]

[i]Gradually, however, a whole new generation of young women begin playing football more extensively than ever before. In 1970, a Women’s World Cup was organized independently in [b]Italy[/b], and in 1971 a second took place in [b]Mexico City[/b]. Matches were played in the 100,000-person capacity Estadio Azteca, which was filled to capacity for some of the games. In the United States, the 1972 Title IX legislation was a game-changer, spurring on the development of women’s soccer programs at universities, which became the foundation for successful national teams.[/i][/quote]

For chrissakes, would you be REAL for a second. None of those countries had legitimate women's soccer programs.  English, Mexicans, Italians, Argentinians felt Futbol was for males.  There was not a large contingent playing.  [b]Flash to 1975, when I started playing soccer in this area and there were tons of young girls playing.  Travel programs were huge. WAGs was started. It was a hotbed of women's soccer and there were National Championships in the early 80s.  It was in HS and all over.[/b]  You can Wikipedia all you like, but the history is not there.  They might have had some matches, but NO there were not organized leagues to any extent like was happening in the US in the same time period.

There was even a special reiterating my point during the last Women's World Cup and with actual interviews of women from many top soccer countries that stated how much flak they took and how male-dominated the sport was even in the last decade.  I assumed you watched since you are such a huge women's soccer fan.

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so you're basically saying there're more women playing organized soccer in the US than the rest of world, not [b]US Women started playing soccer decades before all other Countries[/b], thanks for clarifying it.[/quote]

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