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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are not be surpassed because of HS soccer you.........You know what. Nevermind. It's not worth it. [/quote]

Actually both HS and college soccer are an issue for national team level players.

Is isn’t realistic to expect to continue to dominate the sport when a high percentage of the top players compete for a good portion of a year in a substandard environment (HS and college) during 8 or 9 crucial development years. The reason it hasn’t affected our national team competitiveness in the past is as obvious as the nose on your face - the girls/women in other countries didn’t participate in sports (soccer) in large numbers until recently.

The DA has plenty of flaws but stats that show current USWNT played HS soccer are irrelevant - since the GDA has been here for less than 2 years - which simple arithmetic will tell is not long enough to cover any player’s high school career in its entirety. [/quote]

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Which is why the US struggles so much being competitive in basketball internationally...[/quote]

Plenty of reasons for that.

If you think the soccer and basketball landscapes are the same in HS and college especially with the level of coaching you need to educate yourself.

Basketball is also trending toward the same specialization path outside of school.

And you also have a ton of top players leaving college early to go pro. And when they’re pros at 18 or 19 they don’t squander away multiple developmental years playing only 4-5 months of organized ball.

We had a massive head start in men’s basketball too just like women’s soccer. The rest of the world has closed that lead.

Basketball here also provides plenty of opportunity to play affordably. With such a large country, we should be good at every sport, no?

Nike, adidas, under armour sponsor AAU teams for their summer tours. That does not happen in soccer. There’s little incentive for those brands in our game right now to do that.

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Right, but that's got nothing to do with whether kids play high school, ECNL, and DA --- that's got to do with there not being any incentive for that in general.
And just because we have a large country doesn't mean we are good at every sport --- look at the winter olympics for sports we get dominated in by much smaller countries.

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Population has very little to do with athletic success. The fastest people in the world for a while have been from Jamaica. China isn’t the best at anything.[/quote]

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