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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  Moving the goalposts again?  As we read here last spring and summer, you were waxing on about how this WC we would see the US team crumble.  Now it’s next WC.  Everyone understands that other countries with a far richer soccer culture than the US are finally coming to/have come to a social acceptance and encouragement of women’s soccer.  To say the US has a “better” resources isn’t correct.  European women play with very well funded former men’s clubs and share their wealth of facilities and instruction.  Yes, there are more who play (and are encouraged to play) in the US on the girls side, but they aren’t playing for world renown professional men’s clubs here.  The fact that the US has been able to remain near the top this cycle, win or lose the next game, shows that our product is not as bad as you claim.  It’s ok and actually healthy for the other countries to come up to par and compete.  There may even be a cycle where the US doesn’t make it to the knockout stage.  It happens.  Italy, one of the greatest soccer playing countries on Earth on the men’s side, didn’t even make the WC field last cycle.  This insistence that the USWNT must be on top every game and every cycle is silly and to say they aren’t playing the game well or producing very capable, intelligent players is way off the mark.

I’d wager that the same folks who spend time focusing on every men’s team setback but remain mute after the men’s team advances are at work mucking things up here.  It’s like a dark lobby on every soccer board and now they have brought their agenda to the women’s side, unsatisfied with simply bashing the men.

SMH. [/quote]

Totally disagree with you on all your points. The US wins and will continue to win on the women’s side because of the large pool of players and our population advantage over other countries. The USA has a population of 327 million vs Germany 82m, France 66m and England 55m. The reason the US wins is not because we develop the best players. It’s because we have the biggest pool of players. Our system is really pretty bad and we miss many payers.

You can not compare men’s and women’s soccer. There is just so much more resources and incentives on the men’s side vs women’s.[/quote]

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