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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 1861108, member: 296"] Chuck, My beef isn't so much with how practice is run. It's more to do with the access issues. We've built in too many barriers in youth soccer, and money is the gatekeeper. It seems so distorted that we don't organically push our best players into the best youth programs. Then the other big issue is with the scouting. American eyes always gravitate towards size and speed at any age. Closing down spaces is a nice ability but the small technical kids seem to be overlooked. A sickly young Lionel Messi would have been completely overlooked by American scouts. And just look at American coaches. They all gravitate towards athletic styles of play, Olsen, Vermes, Bradley, Kinnear etc. they all gravitate towards caveman soccer, or at least Bradley used to. [/QUOTE]