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[quote=Anonymous][quote] clear that even at the Under-20 level, we're not there anymore,” Hickey says. "And we [once] were.”

Van Rijbroek notes that, “in our youth teams, we're not focused on the results”; U-level competitions can be deceiving. But, she adds, “there is also a very clear explanation.” American 19-year-olds are often in college, having come up through this faulty system; their peers in Spain or France, meanwhile, who were once dissuaded from even playing the sport, are now mastering it in youth academies at the world’s most famous clubs.

“If you look at the countries in Europe or Japan, those players, where they play, … the number of games that they play, the number of training sessions — compare that with all our players that are in college,” van Rijbroek says. “If you're four years in college or four years in the youth academy of Barcelona or Olympique Lyon, that's a huge difference.”

At Barca, England defender Lucy Bronze told ESPN last year, “there are just like clones and clones and clones of these amazing, technical, intelligent players.”[/quote]
https://sports.yahoo.com/us-soccer-girls-youth-development-ecnl-000044659.html[/quote]

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