Interesting Detail About College Soccer in the United States
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I had two students miss multiple days of class to travel to St. Louis for some college showcase last week.
If we had to play with American players, we wouldn’t have been in the College Cup.
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Truth.
The fact is, kids coming up through the youth programs in other countries are simply better than most of the players in the States. Most other countries have youth programs/proving grounds with well-structured, established clubs, even in rural areas. Whereas here, club soccer is primarily a money racket reserved for kids that can afford to pay to play, and not necessarily those that are skilled enough or deserve to.
When I was a kid, it was always baseball, baseball, baseball. In the summer, it was about all we ever played in the neighborhood. Never even heard of soccer.
And a large chunk of the American kids coming up that are good enough to play in a Grassie like system get recruited into the MLS academies, which the ACC and BIG10 have a chokehold on.
And then in the fall you played football, winter was basketball. Travel baseball is just as bad as travel soccer in getting into these kids heads telling them they are gods gift to the sport
Yep. Was a huge ECNL showcase. Your students are likely legit D1 college prospects.
Soccers problem in the USA is there are other sports that are more popular. The best athletes are divided among football, basketball, baseball, etc. Also look at the size of soccer players. A soccer roster doesn't look like a NBA or NFL roster. I just looked up the NFL average size of their players. Per the NFL report it about 6'2" 245 lbs. You are not going to see D1 tight ends or linemen playing soccer. Look at the size of big time quarterbacks. Same for basketball. Soccer has become a rich kid suburban sport in this country, just like baseball. Our talent pool is not coming up through the soccer ranks.
Those other countries don't have anything else to do. They get a ball and kick it around. I saw that in Honduras. Poor as dirt kids can play soccer in a dirt field
Those other countries don't have anything else to do. They get a ball and kick it around. I saw that in Honduras. Poor as dirt kids can play soccer in a dirt field
We should be like China. Steal kids from their parents at the age of 2 and put them through a series of tests for athletic aptitude. keep the ones that show promise and send them off to train all day every day.
Seriously, leave a sport for other countries to be better than Us. They need something.
Seriously, leave a sport for other countries to be better than Us. They need something.
they are decent but I don't think there's that many d1 players that are 5'6 130
Yeah, unless they are female (or the next coming of Messi) that’s not going to work 🤣
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