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Message: [QUOTE="UConnSwag11, post: 1727934, member: 240"] USA soccer is generic... it's a worse version of the EPL... until the US has midfielders with creativity, speed, IQ , they're going to be behind everyone... Goalies and defense are always solid and the strikers/forwards look to be improving quickly... but when you have bradley, beckerman, and jones all of the same style of players on the field at the same time always doing the same thing always playing the same style- dull, always playing square balls... klinsman can only work with what he has... the US needs to have more technical, smarter, faster players... enough of the long ball after long ball, I never see them build anything it has to do with the midfield and lack of confidence and IQ around the team... the MLS needs to clean up the quality immediately and also get rid of the damn turf fields and non stop long balls as for poor kids playing soccer, they have also been given a football or mainly basketball as a way to better themselves... it's slowly starting to gain traction with the poorer regions of the country. I believe the costs will come down when this soccer explosion "bubble" pops. not many kids can play soccer on dirt roads without shoes... they play basketball on the pavement and there arent many areas for inner city kids to play soccer without paying to go somewhere [/QUOTE]