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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All roads should lead to the national team.  Single umbrella underneath the USSF, merit based pro/rel and everything aligned with FIFA rules.[/quote]

How does that work when there is nothing preventing other people from forming leagues? Are you going to bar parents from forming rec leagues under other or no umbrellas? Will college coaches be forbidden from recruiting kids in leagues not sanctioned by USSF? For the overwhelming majority of kids playing soccer in the us, the road does not run to the national team. Even for elite players, roads run to college, not the national team. To be exceedingly generous, there are maybe 100 people contending to be on the national team at any one time. There are 10s of thousands of youth players. No sane system will focus on those few players at the expense of the majority, and if a system does, then expect a competing system focused on the majority to emerge  [/quote]

Under that model, the system will work and filter itself over time naturally.  Are there going to be barriers of entry?  Of course.  But not like what's going on now.  MLS needs isolation to function as it does.  As do most other leagues that are closed with no real opportunity to get in the game and let the play do the talking.

Of course the national team isn't a place for everybody but it should be viewed as the very top of the landscape.  Anywhere else in the world it's an absolute honor and privilege to wear the crest of one's country.  But below that?  There's plenty of opportunity to continue to play.  [b]The US, with a country as big as it is only has 94 pro men's clubs for a population of about 335 million people.  So about 1 club for every 3.5 million or so.  Brazil in comparison has 203 million people and 124 pro men's clubs.  About 1 club for every 1.5 or so million people. [/b] There's room for growth here if done the right way, there's already so many clubs at the youth level and with more leagues getting D1 status from USSF we see it's growing.  Just need to also make sure that things are aligned and working together, not competing against each other.[/quote]

Considering the relative popularity of soccer in both countries, that's great that gap is so close [/quote]

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