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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting better and becoming the cream requires being faced with adversity and lots of challenge.

These suburban teams that carry over year to year with set teams aren’t even having true tryouts.  It does nothing for these players.  They are way too comfortable.  Potential wasted.  That is fine if HS is the dream.

You can see why we will never be a country on the World stage because everyone is okay with shitty soccer “a mix of kids that boot and run and a few kids that pass”.  These are our top teams? Christ.  Kids that can’t use both feet and have a crappy first touch and no soccer IQ.

But, I guess if you are going to succeed in the US, your kid should learn shitty US soccer.  It is a disadvantage in the US to have them developed properly because that requires time and bucking the “super” teams to learn it and these “super” teams are the only path to our shitty non-qualifying USMNT or crappy MLS.  I don’t know about cream, but the turd floats and stays on top.

Gotta be able to boot!

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Hey, I recognize you!  You're the "shitty soccer" poster.  Your MO is to take a sentence or two from someone's post about their family's experience (or whatever) and then immediately extrapolate to your favorite theme of This is Why US Soccer is Shitty and We Will Never Achieve Anything on the World Stage.

I do agree that it's not good for a players' development for a team to have the same coach and players for years on end for the adversity and challenge reasons you note, and also because a new coach might be able to help you overcome weaknesses in your game that your prior coach was blind to.  That's not to say that these type of teams uniformly lack skills and ability though.  There a couple of teams playing in the U18 National League this year with a core group of kids who have had the same coach since they were 8 or 9, and in both cases the coaches are knowledgeable and most of the kids are skilled and talented and know how to play possession soccer.  I will be curious to see how they fare when they are in a new environment.[/quote]

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