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This is the problem. People don't seem to understand how hard it is to produce athletic, technical players.
They don't seem to realize that you are more likely to end up with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (or much, much worse) rather than Thierry Henry.

Yea, and Oxlade-Chamberlain is the huge success story of I'm sure 30 other youth players coming through the same system with similar speed and athleticism.

The whole "get better athletes" line of reasoning is mainly just putting the cart before the horse.

It assumes our problem is that we're already producing Pirlo, Scholes or David Silva -- and more importantly hundreds of others that are just below that level but still players that could thrive in the EPL or Serie A --from the regular kids that do go through the system but just need more pace and power to surround them.

Really the exact opposite of our issue.

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Posted by crazy4lsu

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Posted on 10/20/17 at 2:09 pm to wm72

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Really the exact opposite of our issue.

It is and lord knows I've tried to explain it over and over. My experience with you is hoping the next starlet who is destroyed other 16 year olds can do it at the top level, and honestly the only player who has minimally lived up to expectations has been Jack Wilshere, which I think is a testament unto itself. Wilshere would be utterly ignored in the American system, as would numerous talented, undersized players, and that is the place where America should focus its recruitment efforts, not the 6-3 receiver who is an amazing athlete, but in all likelihood, would end up as a goalkeeper at best.

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