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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 1728234, member: 2839"] Compare US Soccer to any other sport played in any other country. Youth Soccer in the US is very technical. Dribbling between cones, make sure to use the front instep when striking, avoid banana kicks. Don't head the ball unless absolutely necessary. In other countries, soccer is instinctual. Players are more creative on the whole because they are rarely coached. In that vain it is similar to basketball played in this country. There are no coaches on the playgrounds of New York City, but there is plenty of "flashy" passes and dunks meant to avoid defenders. Similar to US Soccer, there are plenty of international basketball players making the safe lay up move or the text book chest pass which often times is stolen by LeBron James and flushed at the other end of the court for 2 points. The other thing is that soccer is the sole passion in many other countries and their stars are national heroes, and this includes other 1st world countries like France and Germany. Kids look up to them and, with education being so poor in many of the great soccer playing countries, see soccer as their only way up and out. For the exceptional athlete in North America, they have more choices to which to devote their time and seeing as the North American soccer player is a relative pauper to their baseball/basketball/football/hockey brethren, chances are they would reach for the shinier ring, if given the opportunity. [/QUOTE]