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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5038530, member: 71"]
Not quite 20 years ago, when I was working in Westchester, my son (soon to  29) was first playing rec league soccer and there was a training facility that had a sign quoting Johan Cryuff that said something like "I didn't learn football skills playing for the junior national team, I learned playing in the streets".  When I was a kid, we played baseball all day, every day during the summer.  Most of the best (American) football players and basketball players learn the sport playing pickup games in yards or on pavement courts.  I really don't believe there are many kids who get together and start playing soccer without coaches and parents supplying orange slices every fifteen minutes when a break is called.

I have a laundry list of fundamental flaws within the US system of developing a national soccer team, that this sport has the exclusivity it has (which among other things eliminates players becoming dedicated as a path out of poverty) in the dfevelopmental stages is very high on the list.
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