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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]interesting, thanks for the info!  I just started recently following NWSL as you guessed :)  Your last sentence made me think of Spirit playing at Audi field next month, do you see any synergy between DC United and Spirit in the near future?

Also, why does the NWSL need to import talent at all?  US soccer should have a huge pool for female talent no??  [/quote]

Oh how I wish!!  I've heard many people mention that as well, but so far, nothing has surfaced.  I think in the short term, no such connection will be made - formally at least.

The US has talent, but there is a lot of talent overseas as well.  From watching pro games, seeing national teams, etc, the US favors athletic, fast girls who are technically capable of connecting a pass, but there is no support for any creativity or originality.  As has been mentioned in other threads, drill after drill has a touch limit, and this is the type of soccer US Soccer wants taught.  In fact, in an article previously posted, there was talk of the Mexican American who got passed over, Gonzalez.

"It’s not that the US lost Jonathan Gonzalez, it’s that a player like Jonathan Gonzalez had to look elsewhere for opportunities,” says Gomez. “He was discovered by [former US youth coach] Hugo Perez but there are not enough coaches like Perez who think outside the box. We have been conditioned to believe that proper football is British and that proper football commentary is British. But this is not the world we live in. There are different worlds."

US Soccer just wants one model of a soccer player.  This isn't one coach, one club, or one league.  It's systemic in the DA and upward.  In fact, because of this, when asked why he had left the DA system after trying it briefly, Taitague (or his father, I just can't remember) said that what the DA wanted took from Taitague what makes him impactful as a player:  the ability to dribble the ball through players and create space.  Yet Schalke loves him.

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Want to see some high level, creative, technical soccer?  Watch the women's UEFA on youtube.  That's what we should be striving for.[/quote]

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