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I give guidance to my player - maybe your guidance is nothing but mine is solid.

in the end...its up to the athlete if he/she will listen and do what they are told....or they may decide to lay on the couch and turn on the xbox....depending on what they decide to do will determine if they choose greatness or mediocrity.

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in the end...its up to the athlete if he/she will listen and do what they are told....or they may decide to lay on the couch and turn on the xbox....depending on what they decide to do will determine if they choose greatness or mediocrity.

Here is the first problem .... no great players ever had to be told to play ..... quite the opposite .... "Lionel, stop juggling in the living room and do your homework!" .... "MJ, stop dribbling in the dining room, you are scaring the dog!" ..... "Wayne, it's July, get those d@mn skates off on the linoleum!" ..... "Nolan, you have put another hole in the garage, go throw somewhere else!" .... "LT, stop blind-siding your little sister .... she is going to get hurt!". The greats are who they are because they are driven and can never get enough, not because they were told to make a choice.

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Here is the first problem .... no great players ever had to be told to play ..... quite the opposite .... "Lionel, stop juggling in the living room and do your homework!" .... "MJ, stop dribbling in the dining room, you are scaring the dog!" ..... "Wayne, it's July, get those d@mn skates off on the linoleum!" ..... "Nolan, you have put another hole in the garage, go throw somewhere else!" .... "LT, stop blind-siding your little sister .... she is going to get hurt!". The greats are who they are because they are driven and can never get enough, not because they were told to make a choice.

Yes - the greats are driven and will rise so the entire system should not be designed to benefit a few dozen greats. Silly. Set up soccer to get as many involved as possibel and the cream will rise instead of excluding more then half the possible players early on.

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Yes - the greats are driven and will rise so the entire system should not be designed to benefit a few dozen greats. Silly. Set up soccer to get as many involved as possibel and the cream will rise instead of excluding more then half the possible players early on.

Go for it, and I mean that sincerely. Start a league with quality training everywhere for pennies on the dollar and I'll be first in line.

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Yes - the greats are driven and will rise so the entire system should not be designed to benefit a few dozen greats. Silly. Set up soccer to get as many involved as possibel and the cream will rise instead of excluding more then half the possible players early on.

the cream all ways rises to the top!!! all ways has and all ways will. It has nothing to do with circumstances.

"Excuses are for people who don't want it bad enough" conor mcgregor

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Yes - the greats are driven and will rise so the entire system should not be designed to benefit a few dozen greats. Silly. Set up soccer to get as many involved as possibel and the cream will rise instead of excluding more then half the possible players early on.

not what you have now is it. The cost of participation is very high

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Go for it, and I mean that sincerely. Start a league with quality training everywhere for pennies on the dollar and I'll be first in line.

without a painful journey...the prize at the end will not be worth anything.

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Go for it, and I mean that sincerely. Start a league with quality training everywhere for pennies on the dollar and I'll be first in line.

Will never happen. Youth soccer looks how it looks to extract every possible dollar out of the families. That is the American way.

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the cream all ways rises to the top!!! all ways has and all ways will. It has nothing to do with circumstances.

"Excuses are for people who don't want it bad enough" conor mcgregor

Then I guess the usa does just not have much soccer cream available on the mens side. Go iceland!

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Then I guess the usa does just not have much soccer cream available on the mens side. Go iceland!

you may, perhaps be correct!!!!!! :) are the men playing iceland soon?

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The point was that Iceland qualified for the world cup...a country the size of ny state geographically with a population of 350,000 people.

And the us with 350 million people could not rustle up enough top players to do the same.

But I am sure that it is just that we have too many unmotivated lazy slobs playing.

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The point was that Iceland qualified for the world cup...a country the size of ny state geographically with a population of 350,000 people.

And the us with 350 million people could not rustle up enough top players to do the same.

But I am sure that it is just that we have too many unmotivated lazy slobs playing.

Iceland improved so dramatically for three reasons.

1) They built a small artificial soccer field in the playground of every single public school in the country for the kids to use at recess and after school.

2) The cities built large indoor soccer facilities throughout the country and charge almost nothing for them to be used by clubs.

3) Every single coach, even the U-Littles, are paid professionals that carry UEFA coaching licenses. There isn't a single parent coach in the country. And they do this while still keeping club ball affordable, at most a few hundred Euro's a year.

When any country throws that singular focus upon any sport and keeps it affordable and accessible, it is going to become pretty damn good at it.

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Iceland improved so dramatically for three reasons.

1) They built a small artificial soccer field in the playground of every single public school in the country for the kids to use at recess and after school.

2) The cities built large indoor soccer facilities throughout the country and charge almost nothing for them to be used by clubs.

3) Every single coach, even the U-Littles, are paid professionals that carry UEFA coaching licenses. There isn't a single parent coach in the country. And they do this while still keeping club ball affordable, at most a few hundred Euro's a year.

When any country throws that singular focus upon any sport and keeps it affordable and accessible, it is going to become pretty damn good at it.

Granted it's a smaller country with fewer competing other popular sports (hockey is very big there too), but it shows what effective leadership and vision can do. USSF is utterly clueless. Youth soccer has turned into an untamable octopus with ne real leadership.

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The point was that Iceland qualified for the world cup...a country the size of ny state geographically with a population of 350,000 people.

And the us with 350 million people could not rustle up enough top players to do the same.

But I am sure that it is just that we have too many unmotivated lazy slobs playing.

Like in many parts of the world, the majority of Iceland's best athletes play soccer. In the US, most of our best athletes play basketball and football.

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Like in many parts of the world, the majority of Iceland's best athletes play soccer. In the US, most of our best athletes play basketball and football.

The best athletes argument is a fallacy. Our issue isn’t lack of athletes, it’s lack of understanding and creativity. The best athletes argument would make sense if we only lost to other big population countries but we get dominated by teams with minuscule player pools, so it’s not like they are squads full of Odell Beckhams. They are squads made up of players who see and understand movement, recognizing patterns and seeing where the opening will be 3 passes ahead.