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As far as an "all out effort" think about Lebron, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson, etc growing up playing soccer and going to year round soccer academies. THis is what it will take. In every other country all the best athletes grow up playing soccer and are trained in academies. Our elite athletes still more often than not choose football and basketball at an early age, but soccer is gaining.

So you want us to guess which one of our kids will be the next Lebron, then force him to only play soccer, just so the US could maybe go further in the World Cup?

Makes sense

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Posted by golftigers

Mandeville

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 7/1/14 at 11:44 pm to wildtigercat93

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So you want us to guess which one of our kids will be the next Lebron, then force him to only play soccer, just so the US could maybe go further in the World Cup?

Makes sense

Stupid response. Its not about forcing any kid to do anything or guessing who will be great. Its about those type athletes wanting to play soccer over football or basketball. Long way to go but soccer is in the conversation with kids now.

In Germany every pro soccer team is required to run an academy to develop soccer talent. These kids battle each other year round to become elite soccer players with hope of going pro one day, not to college. We don't have anything like that kind of a system here.

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Posted by shel311

McKinney, Texas

Member since Aug 2004

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Posted on 7/2/14 at 7:46 am to wildtigercat93

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So you want us to guess which one of our kids will be the next Lebron, then force him to only play soccer, just so the US could maybe go further in the World Cup?

Makes sense