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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you realize that USSF has only 1 full time scout for all age groups?  The scouting is virtually non-existent.  The call ups are not based on meaningful scouting and evaluation, but are designed to send one message to US based players: [b]you must play for DA to be considered and even then, you are a long shot unless you play for MLS DA[/b].  Take a look at the announcements from USSF, they emphasize how many players come from DAs.  As for the results, the talent gap should be too large, if the players were properly identified.  A team with 4 youth national team players should be crushing teams, which do not have players of similar caliber.  However, VDA scored 4 goals against this "uber talented" DCU team and beat it.   Bethesda, which also did not get any call ups, held them to 1 goal.   [/quote]

So we agree that it was complete BS to say that a kid at an MLS DA, who was playing up a year, never would have even gotten a look from US Soccer if he hadn't gone overseas.

As for "US Soccer only has 1 full time scout", the source for that was Thomas Rongen, a man whose integrity (Jonathan Gonzalez) ranks right up there with his intelligence (Messi has a low soccer IQ).  Here's the official version from US Soccer:  https://www.ussoccer.com/talent-identification-scouting.  The way I interpret it there's a full time talent ID staff of around 10, and a network of around 200+ scouts.  It's also probably fair to say that they rely to a large extent on the ability of the DA clubs to scout and recruit the best talent from their local communities.

Is it a good system?  Hell no.  As RSD said, we're terrible at this.  In my opinion there's no way we'll ever come close to our potential as a soccer nation until we have a system of independent clubs competing in an open market, promoted and relegated based on sporting merit, rewarded for player development through transfer fees, training compensation, and solidarity payments.  That type of competition is what drives real meaningful scouting across the world - starting at very young ages but continuing all the way through the development process - because no club wants to miss a talented player that their rival then finds and capitalizes on.

I just don't think pushing BS narratives with no regard for actual facts is the way to get us there.

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