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[quote=Anonymous]Fans of Liverpool and Valencia aren't fans because they feel like it, they genuinely follow them as their local team.  The path of creating tiers is too long, and frankly un-American.  If we are going to stand a chance of creating stars in football, the only path I see working in the next 10-20 years is constructing soccer fields, blacktop or grass, and then have a decentralized network of soccer programs that are cheap and just allow for the programs to schedule games.  The children interested in improving will improve on their own.  Let the rich families enjoy theor private coaching and cross-country national championships.

Then US Soccer would only be responsible for identifying players worthy of of being brought to US training grounds free of charge away from school, classmates, families for a series of extended stays.  We have shown that when it comes to our kids, we Americans are willing to pay high prices for just an opportunity, so it will be impossible to remove the $ from the selection.  But if we have the same program and training for all individuals seen with potential, it may help with keeping the playing field.

This would require coaches with an eye for potential 15 years down the road, and not next Sunday's game.  Also, this would HAVE to mean that partipating in the USYS and US Club Soccer nat'l championships and Nat'l League would be meaningless to those coaches looking for players with high potential in their twenties.

Giving up bragging rights for parents and $$$ for all the private soccer academies, trainers, camps, and travel club teams won't be easy, but is the price we will have to pay. [/quote]

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