re: United States of F#ck Yeah v. A Guy Named Ana | Gold Cup Group D | 9pm CT (FS1)

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There’s no national body that does that, though. The people’s passion for those sports drives that scouting and development, and that does not exist here for soccer.

I think US Soccer should hyper-focus on two or three development academies. One organization can’t focus on this entire country, trying to fashion diamonds out of coal. It’s just too big and there are too few good coaches.

But one organization could focus exclusively on NYC kids and SoCal kids, making sure that every talented kid knows the opportunities provided by soccer and has available the best possible level of facilities and coaching.
There are 3 or 4 million kids between NYC and LA county. You’re telling me we couldn’t make 23 international players from that, if we focused on it?

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Anytime a federation tries a state-run national team, it fails spectacularly.

We even tried it in the early 80's.