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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^— athleticism in women’s soccer still reigns supreme

Doesn’t matter how creative you are.  Covering more ground over the full length of the match matters more.[/quote]

Sure, but it is also something that can't be developed or coached. Speed also is nation agnostic. To think that America has all the fastest people in the world in soccer is foolish. If you believe speed alone will be enough you are being naïve. EVERYONE will be fast.[/quote]

So it's speed and high soccer IQ?[/quote]

And we commercialized the sport but we support it more than anybody else (for girls)[/quote]

No, parents paying youth soccer clubs is what supports the sport.

There are more pro opportunities now in Europe than in the States. Any talent we have will begin shooting to play professionally in Europe. And to crack those squads will require beating out players who have been trained in Professional Academies their entire youth career.

Flash forward a decade, how many kids after spending 4 years playing in college are going to really compete against European players who have been training professionally in a professional environment and playing in professional leagues for those same four years?

The college game brought our Women's team to National prominence because of scale compared to the rest of the world. But European professional clubs will quickly surpass that development without asking parents to pay for it.

In America soccer is a rich white kids sport with leagues meant to get kids into college. That is not a competitively sustainable system moving forward. [/quote]

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