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USDA taking over girls soccer is the equivalent of the US postal service take over.

1. USSF has shown they have no idea what it takes to properly develop players yet they now put their hands into girls soccer.

2. USSF is behind countries smaller than california but they want more power.

3. More regulations, more restrictions, more rules.

Typical cronyism.

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There is very strong resistance in this country to centralized planning when it comes to education. The resistance to standardized testing, No Child Left Behind, etc., is pretty well documented.

At minimum, some scrutiny to what is hailed as "the direction of US Soccer" should be scrutinized. It actually can't be (and should not be) rolled out if folks don't buy in.

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There is very strong resistance in this country to centralized planning when it comes to education. The resistance to standardized testing, No Child Left Behind, etc., is pretty well documented.

At minimum, some scrutiny to what is hailed as "the direction of US Soccer" should be scrutinized. It actually can't be (and should not be) rolled out if folks don't buy in.

It can't happen until the American footbal/baseball/basketball parent mentality changes. Our culture does not allow us to play and teach the game correctly. This is the foundation with which we are failing.

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It can't happen until the American footbal/baseball/basketball parent mentality changes. Our culture does not allow us to play and teach the game correctly. This is the foundation with which we are failing.

Our deficiencies our structural and cultural. I'm not sure they are technical (showing a player how to strike the ball) or, even if it is, that the best way to solve it dictates from US Soccer.

On the educational front, one of the reasons for opposing centralized planning is that pedagogy is inherently values driven; different communities value different things therefore DC shouldn't dictate all aspects. Further, every child is different, making centralized planning difficult across millions of children. Finally, there is a limit to what we know with certainty - best to have multiple approaches (within certain parameters), and then expand those approaches that are most successful.

Take what you will and apply it in the soccer context; my point was only that this argument has been hashed out for a generation on the educational front and there are plenty of thoughtful educators that are resistant to top-down dictates when it comes to child development.