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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US Youth Soccer is horrible.  Look at the DA.  Those aren’t the best America has.  In Arlington Or Loudoun (before they lost it)- it was always pure athleticism/physicality before they’ve even had  a wet dream and/or politics.  Always been, always will be.

Read the Atlantic magazine article bout Sidwell Friends scandal that came out yesterday.Those are the same type of parents controlling soccer rosters.

Oh yes-they dominate at 14/15, but can’t trap a ball if their life depended on it.[/quote]

Way to ignore that the DA produced nearly every player on the U20 team that doing really well right now. Most of them are playing in Europe, and are pretty good at trapping the ball. [/quote]

DA is a corrupt racket designed to get parents to pay huge sums of money to develop potential pro/NT players so USSF and MLS can hang on to more of their own $$$$.

It's a big reason why small countries like Belgium produce world-class players on a regular basis, while the US rarely does.[/quote]

Yeah right.  The strong club system and soccer culture in Belgium have nothing to do with their relative success.

It's the USSF's fault that the vast majority in this country don't give two whoots about soccer.[/quote]

More than 3 million kids in the US play youth soccer, nearly all of them paying fees to do so. Seems like someone cares. I know people who care enough to shell out the thousands of dollars for their kids to play DA every year.

Meanwhile, US Soccer sits on a &gt;$130 million surplus and uses its licensing power to maintain MLS' monopoly position in top-level US pro soccer.

It's not the fact that Americans don't care that keeps us from having a strong club system and soccer culture. It's the greed of the people who keep a stranglehold on the game to get rich.

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