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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what Cruyff said about Pep Guardiola (as a player):

Barça wanted to get rid of him [Guardiola]. They considered him scrawny, bad defensively and ineffective in the air. What nobody saw was that he had the basic qualities to go far: he had game intelligence, speed in his execution, technique. If I hadn't been at Barcelona, for sure he would have been sold to a Segunda Division club.

How many Guardiolas, Xavis, and Iniestas sit on the benches around the DMV because they make the correct play, which is sometimes to pass the ball sideways or back? A ton.

And don't tell me that if the NBA played soccer USA would be world-beaters. The best American player is 5'9" and 160. The best player in the world is smaller. You think other countries don't have athletes?

Shut up.

Player pool size? There are 11 million people in Belgium and 3 million youth soccer players in the United States. Our pool is plenty big enough.

Our model sucks. Clubs are funded by parents, who want. to. see. their. kids. win. There is no incentive to develop players. Even if they do develop a pro-caliber player, it's just until the kid gets a bigger opportunity and leaves the club.

Europe works because good coaches teach kids how to play--all kids who want to--and make their money developing players. That's it. [/quote]

Every word of this ^^^

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Agree. We have the player pool to succeed already. We don’t have the skilled coaches, the professional training environment, or the financial incentives, though the latter is changing somewhat with the pathway to Germany that has opened up the last few years. [/quote]

We haven't tapped into our player pool. If we put together a quality affordable program with our best coaches. Set it up in most of our lower  income urban areas and ran it successfully for 10 years. Then we could start to reap the rewards of our homegrown talent. We would be a top 5 soccer power in the world. Instead we based off of capitalism have our best funded programs privatized and set up  to profit. Where do you make the biggest profit ? White suburbia of course, Its also slim Pickens when it come to athletic talent. [/quote]

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