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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not been impressed with the WNT for several years.  There is a systemic issue about player development and selection.  [b]The US is succeeding on the women's side because we do have an overwhelming advantage in the numbers and a strong developmental landscape[/b], primarily because the game is a middle class and upper middle class game on the girls side.  Parents invest a tremendous amount.  US Soccer is the beneficiary, so far.  But, US Soccer's lack of foresight is going to come home to roost soon, I fear.  The men's game is very different.  Other nations have a lot of boys play the game (not so on the girls side), and in the US, soccer is not the sport that the very best athletes gravitate to on the boys side--you have football, basketball, baseball and a ton of other upstart sports taking a lot of good athletes out of the pool, early.   [/quote]
Therefore saying the rest of the world will catch up to us soon is just wishful thinking. Like someone said up thread US will always have the fastest and strongest athletes that may or may not be so refined in their touches and also may or may not play the game 'the right way,' but soccer is just another sport and speed and strength will always have an edge over physically less talented opponents.
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