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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that the best sandwiches and pizza, like soccer players, are made with passion at home, not at a for profit business.

Nothing the USSF can do about that cultural problem.  If we had that level of passion as a percentage of population as the European and South American countries, we’d be doing much better and you’d be hailing USSFs genius.

Correlation does not equal causation.  [/quote]

Passion and culture is such a cop out. All the passion in the world doesn’t help if you can afford to pay, or travel, if the coaching you get is terrible, or if the development pathway for you to improve is nonexistent.

How many coaches in the current system would actively push their best player to a better development environment? Hardly any - they would keep the player in their club, use them to win games and tournaments (yay - gotsoccer points!) and try to use that player to attract others so their team could win more games. The system is not set up for player development. Everyone is fighting over access to parent checkbooks.

We have enough families with “passion” for soccer to fill the countries that are smaller and better than us. You are telling me we don’t have enough soccer families in all of the US to match the population of Iceland, Uruguay, Croatia, Netherlands? We are almost 20x the size of the Netherlands. We have not come close to developing a single player that would be in the top 100 Dutch players of the past few decades. [/quote]

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