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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big difference is numbers.  The US is the only country with 10,000 continuing renewed women players ages 18-21 who are working out and regularly playing during that 4 year period.  No one else is close to those numbers.  Out of that 10,000, you have 1500 players graduating college every year.  (Lots of players quit during college)  Maybe 50 of those 1500 are potential professional level players and maybe 5 are potential national team level players.

Internationally, no country is even close to the US numbers. That is not the case on the men's side. So, the goal in non-US countries is to find and train up 25 good players out of the numbers that they do have.  That is a workable system, but it requires proper player selection and training, and a fair amount of luck.

Will the US move on from this player group by World Cup?  Sure.  They would have moved on before, but covid limited the ability to play and train up new players.  You have to get familiar with the systems and structures of play, and with your teammates.  Are there younger players in the US who are better and faster than some of the players on the US national team?  Of course.  Could they have trained with the national team players, learned the systems, played in exhibition games so the team could play well together during the last 18 months?  No.  So -- that is why the US team and other countries teams went awith what they know.  It's not great, but it is workable.     It's also why we have players like Carli Lloyd and O'Hara on the roster, and Canada has players like Christine Sinclaire on the rosters.  Heck, Marta was the 3rd oldest player on the Brazil team that lost to Canada in PKs this morning.  Formiga could call Lloyd menina.

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It doesn’t matter if 10,000 players are playing college soccer when only 40 of them are even drafted by the NWSL each year. [/quote]

You are not too bright are you?[/quote]

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