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re: Was the U-23 perfomance last night a reflection of Jurgen's youth development?
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:21 am to StraightCashHomey21
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:21 am to StraightCashHomey21
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I played with and against lots of Hispanic kids in HS in which HS ball was their first time playing actual organized soccer. It was insanely obvious too. A player would be amazing on a technical level b/c he has had a ball at his feet since he could walk but had no idea how to play as a team or cohesive unit or any concept of space and making runs. He would rather just ball hog.
Literally every league in the USA has Mexi Cristiano Ronaldo.
It's like they were taught to stare directly at the ground in front of them.
Such a waste and so frustrating to play with.
This post was edited on 3/30/16 at 9:22 am
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Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:28 am to STLhog
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Such a waste and so frustrating to play with.
but so much fun to clatter in a tackle
Posted on 3/30/16 at 3:14 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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If you ever watch our U-15's to U-19's those boys hold their own on the field with just about everyone and just think a good amount of those kids are not even old enough to move to a European youth set up yet, then throw in the MLS academies getting better in say 10 years or so we will be fine.
Exactly this.
It's a generational thing. Mls academies have been fundamentally overhauled over the past 1-5 years. You are starting to see the first little benefits like Dallas having 5 homegrowns in a starting lineup. In five years from now production will take another big leap. Ten years from now should see even more widespread productivity.
It won't happen in a year or two or three but I like the path that we are on.
Posted on 3/31/16 at 2:53 am to LuckyTiger
A good measure of success for the MLS academy system the next ten years is seeing how many of these kids are snapped up at the age of 18 to finish their football education in a European academy or even push for the first team. Even better if the have the path to come over here at 16 after a few years in an MLS youth team. Then we focus on developing those kids who didn't make the grade yet and get them in the MLS.
The only disadvantage we have in terms of developing youth is the size of our country land wise and the not having enough clubs. The clubs be so spread out hurts these youth teams being able to play each other on the regular and having to play lesser quality teams. Also not enough clubs so they have to rely on branch systems with travel teams which can let kids slip through the cracks. Anyone who played travel knows there is a frick ton of politics in it. So this kind of limits the club to only scout the local area.
While in Europe you have the club partnership thing as well but you have extensive scouting going on. Home grown rules have been able to limit the reach of clubs just getting who ever in their country. We still have a way to go in that realm.
The only disadvantage we have in terms of developing youth is the size of our country land wise and the not having enough clubs. The clubs be so spread out hurts these youth teams being able to play each other on the regular and having to play lesser quality teams. Also not enough clubs so they have to rely on branch systems with travel teams which can let kids slip through the cracks. Anyone who played travel knows there is a frick ton of politics in it. So this kind of limits the club to only scout the local area.
While in Europe you have the club partnership thing as well but you have extensive scouting going on. Home grown rules have been able to limit the reach of clubs just getting who ever in their country. We still have a way to go in that realm.
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