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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Increase your chances of being scouted by college coaches in DA / ECNL - please. This means if you put those worlds on your playing resume, D2 and D3 schools will want you after the better players have already picked their schools.

If you're "that good", just attend the summer came of your college of choice and if you are that much of a superstar, you'll be noticed.

The DA gives all these girls a false impression that somehow they will make the national team or that there's a  pathway to the national team. Very few. And those few that do were probably going to get there anyway without the DA.

It is also a way for USSF to standardize things coaching the way they like to do it and make things more homogeneous / structured, since we know that they are right about everything.

That's why all of our best players seem to have developed their talent overseas, right?[/quote]

Name a U.S. women's national team player who developed overseas.[/quote]

Following up -- I'm not counting players who have spent time in the European pro leagues. Christen Press found a good environment in Sweden when WPS folded and then stayed there for the first season of NWSL play, but she was already an experienced pro. Ali Krieger went to Europe when there was no pro league here and she didn't just want to do U.S. residency (or maybe wasn't invited, being underrated at the time). Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe have gone on loan to France several years into their careers. Crystal Dunn left the NWSL after three years to go to Chelsea, and frankly, she seems to have regressed.

The only WNT player I can think of who went to Europe before age 23 is Lindsey Horan, who skipped college to go pro in France. Even in her case, it's hard to say she "developed her talent" overseas. Refined a bit, sure, and it's an interesting debate to see whether she would've better off going to UNC.

So who am I missing?[/quote]

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