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Grover Cleveland said:
By youth I mean 6-11 years old. But yeah, I agree they're is a cultural problem that's holding us back in football.
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Monroeski said:
Do they have many international soccer tournaments for 12 year olds? That's about the oldest you get in the US (in Texas, at least) before male soccer participation takes a dive off a cliff due to kids in 7th grade being able to play football for their schools instead of a separate league (read: for free for their schools instead of paying for equipment and to get into a private league). Aren't most international youth tournaments more in the "age 18 and under" category? By then gridiron football and basketball have already turned the American soccer talent pool into a desiccated husk.
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sixghost said:
Youth soccer really is awful here. Unless you play for some kind of select team that travels all over the place, coaching is almost non-existent. I played my entire life on decent teams and it wasn't until I started watching european leagues that I even learned what tactics were.
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That's really... young. But yeah, the youngest "high status" international tournament out there would be the u-17 World Cup.

I hope you guys aren't expecting to become world powers over-night even if there was a sudden change in USA's tastes towards association football. That tier of play mostly depends on how many of your players are participating in top leagues, which the MLS is decades away from achieving. Good tactics will take you only so far.
twinturbo2 said:
Trade secret.
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All I'm saying is that even Barcelona thought they had it in the bag when they were 2-0 over Chelsea at 40' in the first half back in April. And we all know how that played out.
Talon- said:
Actually, two of Spain's best players couldn't get playing time in the NBA and went back to La Liga. Scola and Ginobli are the only Argentinians playing in the NBA with regularity.

Granted, Ginobli's been one of the great 2 guards in the league for most of this decade.
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Interesting. Kinda sad that the NBA is so uncooperative with FIBA regarding international events. Most club football pundits get mad that players are taken out of their clubs every once in a while for "meaningless" friendlies, but those are extremely important in order to give the national teams some semblance of cohesion.

Then again, I sometimes feel like most of FootballGAF would rather be without any international tournaments whatsoever. :/
 
Kobe's been shooting like shit since Vanessa came to visit him.

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AHAHAHAHHAHAH GINOBILI WASN'T EVEN TOUCHED ON THAT FLOP

What a flop GOD.

Kobe out of control as hell but Manu already moving back before contact. ffs.
 
MLS still have a long road to reach interest in the U.S. currently is more oriented to latinamerican people, they even have a team subsidiary from a mexican group and its called CHIVAS U.S.A. ( a shitty team by the way). Most of the impportant players come from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay and they go because are in the final of his carrer and get more money in the U.S. than in their country.
 
Regulus Tera said:
That's really... young. But yeah, the youngest "high status" international tournament out there would be the u-17 World Cup.

I hope you guys aren't expecting to become world powers over-night even if there was a sudden change in USA's tastes towards association football. That tier of play mostly depends on how many of your players are participating in top leagues, which the MLS is decades away from achieving. Good tactics will take you only so far.

All I'm saying is that even Barcelona thought they had it in the bag when they were 2-0 over Chelsea at 40' in the first half back in April. And we all know how that played out.

Interesting. Kinda sad that the NBA is so uncooperative with FIBA regarding international events. Most club football pundits get mad that players are taken out of their clubs every once in a while for "meaningless" friendlies, but those are extremely important in order to give the national teams some semblance of cohesion.

Then again, I sometimes feel like most of FootballGAF would rather be without any international tournaments whatsoever. :/
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Eh, the NBA has both more games and a more defined off season than most soccer leagues, so the NBA really can't let players go off during the season, but there is plenty of time for FIBA to schedule events outside the NBA season. There isn't any kind of champions league tournament in the offseason and NBA teams don't really do the kind of touring exhibitions soccer clubs do. It's just not really a comparable situation.
 
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