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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No offense but look at Brazil (all of South America).  Their best players, including the youth level, go to Europe.  Talent is born there but it’s made professional by academies.  Brazil only dominated the world soccer scene while Europe was fractured after WW2.  Once it went through “de-socialism”, it has outperformed every continent many times over.

America doesn’t need Brazilian coaches, we want them from a romanticized memory of soccer.  Europe is well beyond this, and are aware “street culture football” is dead.  Think about it, kids really don’t play in the street anymore for anything.  Instead, a focus on providing a professional environment for youth players to still be free, expressive, etc.  That and they use data analytics.  America (and South America) is nowhere near this.[/quote]

For the foreseeable future, it is pointless comparing the professional system of developing male soccer players to female players.  The financial incentive for clubs to develop male players, and transfer their rights in exchange for a transfer fee, has been built over the last 100+ years.  It is great that people are investing more money in women's professional soccer, but it is a generation or more behind the current men's game.  According to FIFA's most recent reporting for the 2018 year, there were 15,049 international transfers of male players with fees totaling US$7.1 billion, and 577 international transfers of female players for US$493,235.  Long way of saying, there is currently almost ZERO financial incentive for any professional club, whether in Europe or anywhere else in the world, to develop girls players.  And unfortunately, that is not going to change any time in the foreseeable future and may never change.  As a result, let's talk about other, more practical ways of developing the current generation of female youth soccer players, including the next generation of the WNT.    [/quote]

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