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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clubs outside of the us are paid to develop players, not wins.  Their youth clubs don't make money off of winning some meaningless team, they make it when they can sell the rights to top players to big clubs.  Incentives are very different than the local coach that is just trying to position his/her next coaching job.[/quote]

Yes.  The Atlantic (god I sound like a yuppy) just had an article last month all about the scouting and exploitation of African players.  There is a big business in scouting and Africa and bringing them to Europe---and then abandoning them when they don't come to fruition.  Africa is a market of players they are definitely tapping into.  The article also debated the academy system ruining these players.  They state that part of the reason they were so talented was that unscripted pick-up play and game intelligence developed in such environments.  They also went on to describe how intangible discovering talent is in youth because it is so very hard to tell which of the few players will have that something in late teens/early adulthood.  Players can look good in younger years and fizzle out later or not keep developing at the same pace, etc.[/quote]

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