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How so?  Training standards and adherence to the standard are needed if you want a repeatable process.   The main process here is to make players better.  If anything, that helps player development and is done at academies worldwide.  Why wouldn't training standards help here?[/quote]

The rest of the world has an open system for both professional and youth soccer with multiple tiers and promotion/relegation.  Any club can join at the lowest level and work its way up.  Programs with poor coaching and player development get relegated to lower divisions.  Good programs move up.  It works.  Yet USSF rejects this proven model and offers lousy excuses like USSF is having hard time keeping control and auditing the youth clubs.  Spain has 482 youth clubs/academies in the top four divisions of youth soccer.  And they have additional 5 tiers regional divisions with countless clubs below the national system (which also feed into national divisions through promotion).  In 2016-2017, we had 149 DA clubs, which is about 1/3 of clubs in the top four youth divisions in Spain.  Aside from this closed system of 149 clubs, we have a fractured system with multiple "elite," "premier" etc. leagues that feed into nowhere.  The current system does not reward good coaches that develop talent.  The top tier is an exclusive country club.   [/quote]

I am huge open system proponent, and until we have that we will always be fighting this battle with one hand tied behind our back, but ... pro/rel at the youth level without pro/rel at the professional club level is a recipe for disaster, developmentally speaking.

Unless the success of youth player development is tied in to the success (competitively and economically) of the professional first team of the club, the incentives for long term development just do not exist.   [/quote]

I agree that the system needs to open at the professional level, which would attract serious investments in the game, that is the key to have a chance to catch up with the rest of the world.  But starting implementing these principles at youth level is not a bad thing.  The USSF had $130-140 million in surplus funds last year so they could have put some of that money into youth soccer and create an open national system at the youth level similar to the rest of the world. [/quote]

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