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    #46
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    How about going back to the subject of the thread?
    Can you point to any connection to "shellacking"?

    c
    How about a country of over 300 million getting knocked out of the World Cup by a country of 1.4 million?

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      #47
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      How about a country of over 300 million getting knocked out of the World Cup by a country of 1.4 million?
      This has been beaten to death. $ spending and athletes aren't the issue, it's how resources are being spent that is. We absolutely have enough athletes here to develop a respectable national team. However, a multi-pronged series of failures have led us to where we are today - poor talent identification and development (DA isn't doing what they hoped it would), pay to play, college track, lack of residential academies, insufficient NT practicing together, NT level players going to college and not playing professionally, quality of MLS play vs international play, lack of soccer culture, USSF and NT management, poor quality coaching at the youngest ages.

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        #48
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        This has been beaten to death. $ spending and athletes aren't the issue, it's how resources are being spent that is. We absolutely have enough athletes here to develop a respectable national team. However, a multi-pronged series of failures have led us to where we are today - poor talent identification and development (DA isn't doing what they hoped it would), pay to play, college track, lack of residential academies, insufficient NT practicing together, NT level players going to college and not playing professionally, quality of MLS play vs international play, lack of soccer culture, USSF and NT management, poor quality coaching at the youngest ages.
        ditto
        ussf is a joke. Hope Hope wins it!
        Arena - talk about a kleptocracy.
        lack of training - 99% DAs train 4-6 hours/week. That's ok for American football but the worlds most popular game. Training is paramount to success.

        Then there's the issue of the MLS franchises - no relegation. Trivial investments yet first access to YNT attendees.

        System is absurd and not in an entertaining fashion

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          #49
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          This has been beaten to death. $ spending and athletes aren't the issue, it's how resources are being spent that is. We absolutely have enough athletes here to develop a respectable national team. However, a multi-pronged series of failures have led us to where we are today - poor talent identification and development (DA isn't doing what they hoped it would), pay to play, college track, lack of residential academies, insufficient NT practicing together, NT level players going to college and not playing professionally, quality of MLS play vs international play, lack of soccer culture, USSF and NT management, poor quality coaching at the youngest ages.
          the first order of duty when the new USSF president takes office should be to fire Tony Lepore

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            #50
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Jack Harrison is a good example. Best kid to play around here this decade. Grew up playing in England. Played briefly at Berkshire and Black Rock. Went to Wake Forest, about as good as it gets in college, then GA to the MLS for a bit. Now he moves to the EPL. Where did he get trained, England or the US? Some of both. Or did it matter? He would have been a star regardless. Had he been born in Boston he may have tried hockey or lax.
            Harrison played 4 years at Berkshire. He arrived a runt with great skill. He matured and filled out at Berkshire, in one of the few US soccer situations that allowed enough freedom of play and time on the ball to develop. Would he be in EPL if he had moved to a Boston suburb and played for the Bolts or Revs? Not a chance.

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