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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top talent in the US rides for free and do so from very early ages.   There are no barriers for top talent other than the relatively small pool of top talent, which makes it difficult to develop more quickly.  Given the DMV, it's not surprising that everybody wants to approach this like a policy problem, and compare institutional models and outcomes to infer what might be an appropriate or better model for the US, with humans presumed to be vessels of equal ability and incentive all waiting like lab rates to be put under ideal institutional conditions.  It is comical to think that this is a problem worth much  thought for 99.9% of people with so many other problems out there, but here we are.  It is also comical to think that anybody has any top-down control or authority to change the way everything is done at the national or state or even local level.  That isn't how any of this works.  Some institutional models may work better than others, but in the US, the problem is a deep-seated cultural one, with most talent playing and following other sports.  At some point, the ability to succeed is the result of cultural and individual factors that overwhelm institutional design.  And at the end of the day, nobody has the ability or right to eliminate pay to play.

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100% spot on.

Europe is “Pay to play” too! But if you don’t live there, you only see the big name academies which are free (like DC United Academy is!)

I’d add “family culture” too. So much of the saltiness comes from a family culture that has uses resentment and excuses when things get hard.

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Europe is 'Pay Much Less to Get Much More'

We are 'Pay A Lot For Not Much'[/quote]

According to whom?[/quote]

How far removed are you from soccer?

You think there are Bethesda SC equivalent clubs in Holland, France or Spain where parents are spending north of $3000 just for tuition and getting to play on teams with coaches that have minimal licenses?
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Yes. Absolutely there are. They have club systems too, for the kids that don’t play in the professional team academies.

And yes, they also have coaches with minimal licenses. Collette from Chambery playing on a club team doesn’t get the UEFA A coach…if her club is lucky enough to have a UEFA A, they’re probably the technical director.

Licensing levels in many European countries are extremely hard climb. England for example only allows a handful of coaches to sit for the A certification annually - regardless of checking the boxes. 100 candidates might apply, but they only let 5 sit, etc.

Spain allows many more, but the practical must be done entirely in fluent Spanish - making it difficult for non-Spaniard to gain there A via 2nd party UEFA counties. Making a glut of over-credentialed / under skilled Spanish coaches - hence the proliferation of private academies in Spain AND the expatriation of “Spanish Gurus” to other countries - US included.[/quote]

Before even addressing the rest of your diatribe,  provide us with the evidence of a single grass roots youth club in Europe that costs $3,400 for tuition only.

As for your Spanish coaches bashing, they don't have their own UEFA B or A or Pro licenses. It is the same for all of Europe, so I don't know how there licenses are watered down.[/quote]

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