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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Europe still wants Brazilian players because of their strong technical foundation. That is the point. Fine, they go to finishing school in Europe but they have the skills that attracts European clubs in the first place.

We don’t even bother with skills. Until kids are 9 and then they are a part of the club training. By then our players are years behind at best age to suck up skills like a sponge. While our 6-7 year olds are playing tag at local giant soccer club on a Saturday morning Brazilian kids are already juggling.

We lack the culture and passion to have mom and dad teaching their kids at the youngest ages. Instead we sign them up for a Saturday rec league 3-4 years to late. We then spend those years worrying about whether Mia will be in Sally’s team and who is supposed to bring the post game snack after running around a lawn for about 40 minutes of magnet ball. [/quote]

You are correct about the culture and passion in the US vs nearly everywhere else in the world.  However, the Brazilian boys that you mention are developed by professional clubs beginning at very young ages.  These clubs are not developing players out of the goodness of their heart, but to make money.  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/world/americas/brazil-soccer-fire.html

That development does not exist on the girls' side in Brazil.  Macario is probably the biggest young talent to come from Brazil since Marta, and her parents made the decision to send her and her dad to the US at age 12 to get better training than what she would be able to receive in Brazil. [/quote]

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