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[quote=Anonymous]"The reality is that the number of young people playing soccer as registered players under the umbrella of U.S. Soccer has stagnated. People may debate and disagree over the specific numbers, but we should all be able to agree that the ranks of our registered players shouldn’t be stagnant—they should be growing.

Think about it—we have 3 to 4 million kids in our ranks. The fact is millions more are playing— it’s just that they are not registered players under our umbrella.

This is perhaps our single greatest opportunity—and our single greatest challenge—reaching out and bringing these players into our ranks. And we all know the barriers that are standing in the way of our growth—they’re no secret.

The landscape is too fragmented and fractured. Competition is good, but sometimes youth soccer becomes more about winning trophies and making money when it should be about having fun and developing players.

In a country as big and diverse as ours, we’re never going to have a single, unified national youth program like many smaller countries—we’ll always have different programs in different places.

But there does need to be a level playing field—competition has to be fair. And we have to forge a more unified landscape where—instead of programs competing with each other for players— we work together to recruit those millions of kids as registered players.
Player development is not a single-lane road. Not every player will or should go to an academy, and not every state has DAs. We need options for all players at all levels, including ODP."

- Carlos Cordiero, US Soccer President, July 2018

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