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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dominance by any country in a sport will eventually diminish as more people around the world participate.  Look at baseball and basketball which used to be US dominated but now draw significant players from other countries.  Women’s soccer should be no different.  Interestingly men’s soccer is the reverse. More US players going to play in Europe is inevitable. Just like the NBA and MLB are still the premier leagues, but there are more non-US players in these leagues, so too European soccer leagues will always be the top where US players can aspire. Nothing wrong with being a feeder system for other countries the way other countries have done in sports that are more niche in their own countries[/quote]

Exactly--thank you for making an intelligent contribution to this bizarre thread.[/quote]

Yes.  But most Americans don’t have a foreign passport or means to train and play in Europe during the critical years so they rely on aUS soccer to develop them and that’s where we fail.

The American males succeeding have dual citizenship and are being raised in Europe or go over to play by at least 16.[/quote]

You can't go over to play in Europe if you are 16 and have no European passport.  You have to wait until you are at least 18 unless your parents are working in Europe and can exploit one of the very narrow FIFA loopholes.

For all the claims on this thread about how American soccer fails every single kid, because allegedly every single American travel soccer coach only picks big, athletic kids and never cares anything about skill, tactics, or any other sings of soccer intelligence, that's by no means the reality in the DC area or elsewhere.  There are more boys who are 18 plus heading  over to Europe (or to other pro opportunities) every year.  A lot of posters here have a lot of passion and soccer knowledge, but not a very clear picture of what's happening at the higher levels of boys' soccer.[/quote]

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