As long as the youth game is a business with closed leagues and political barriers of entry, the youth game will be pretty flat, and the idea that the federation can use education to hammer in a way they want their youth to play would be nearly impossible to implement. The federation showed they don't care about youth development when they closed the DA and handed development to closed leagues.
Lily is a good example of what a real academy can do for player development. In fact, that's why her parents decided to move to NL. Emma is going to love having this girl in the squad.
Most American players lack creativity. We have very skillful players who are sometimes robotic in game play. Futsal, indoor soccer, and small sided games for youth. Teach them ball control and simple one/two touch passing, and then allow them to be creative. The tactics come later.
NCAA has done nothing positive for the sport in this country--why do we keep expecting more? As far as how how does the game evolve, I'd like to hear from Emma: "Look at Jaedyn Shaw. 19 caps and she's 19 YO. Did she play standard club soccer? No, Futsal first. I'd love to have 11 Jaedyn Shaws in the squad. Imagine if our back line, our keepers had those ball-handling skills! We would be unstoppable!"
It did great things for decades, as the NCAA and Title IX provided the opportunity for women to move much faster on the global stage than did the men. Now that professional soccer and real, and only now, it's time to review the NCAA's impact. As in the rest of the world, more and more players are skipping college. That will minimize its impact.
Insane comment. NCAA is responsible for much of the success of the US on the global scale and has produced several iconic North American players. Morgan? Wambach? Sinclair? Smith? Hamm?? It's been the mode of athletic development in the women's game. It'd be fair to review its current usefulness and impact, but to say it's done nothing is categorically false.
@stellathediver2 That's right, bring the heat! Sorry for the "insanity", I should have qualified my comments by saying NCAA hasn't done anything IN THE PAST 40 YEARS. Feel better now? BTW, women's college soccer does little to develop players outside of maybe 4-6 programs. Have you seen women's soccer? D1 is unwatchable kickball! If college soccer developed HS talent there would be half a dozen world class pros from the hundreds from each class, every year, but there's not. It's all based on individual talent being expressed, some more fully than others. Club soccer in this country is a scam as is college soccer. Only HS soccer represents value for girls and their families. Futsal is the future because parents won't let their kids play pickup in the street/park.
@@r2dad282 No, it only confirms you are a child without an understanding of the history of soccer. It's still producing good players but it's no longer completely necessary, as the elimination of the draft shows. Plenty of the current USWNT members went to college. Just because it didn't work out for you doesn't mean it's useless.
Other countries have it as well, so the mere existence of PTP isn't in itself the problem. Club soccer should be asking itself what it can do, given the constraints of its business model, to simulate street/pickup ball as that's where the real development occurs. For me that's futsal but what do I know I'm only a child.
As long as the youth game is a business with closed leagues and political barriers of entry, the youth game will be pretty flat, and the idea that the federation can use education to hammer in a way they want their youth to play would be nearly impossible to implement. The federation showed they don't care about youth development when they closed the DA and handed development to closed leagues.
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Lily is a good example of what a real academy can do for player development. In fact, that's why her parents decided to move to NL. Emma is going to love having this girl in the squad.
Most American players lack creativity. We have very skillful players who are sometimes robotic in game play. Futsal, indoor soccer, and small sided games for youth. Teach them ball control and simple one/two touch passing, and then allow them to be creative. The tactics come later.
NCAA has done nothing positive for the sport in this country--why do we keep expecting more? As far as how how does the game evolve, I'd like to hear from Emma: "Look at Jaedyn Shaw. 19 caps and she's 19 YO. Did she play standard club soccer? No, Futsal first. I'd love to have 11 Jaedyn Shaws in the squad. Imagine if our back line, our keepers had those ball-handling skills! We would be unstoppable!"
It did great things for decades, as the NCAA and Title IX provided the opportunity for women to move much faster on the global stage than did the men.
Now that professional soccer and real, and only now, it's time to review the NCAA's impact. As in the rest of the world, more and more players are skipping college. That will minimize its impact.
Insane comment. NCAA is responsible for much of the success of the US on the global scale and has produced several iconic North American players. Morgan? Wambach? Sinclair? Smith? Hamm?? It's been the mode of athletic development in the women's game. It'd be fair to review its current usefulness and impact, but to say it's done nothing is categorically false.
@stellathediver2 That's right, bring the heat! Sorry for the "insanity", I should have qualified my comments by saying NCAA hasn't done anything IN THE PAST 40 YEARS. Feel better now? BTW, women's college soccer does little to develop players outside of maybe 4-6 programs. Have you seen women's soccer? D1 is unwatchable kickball! If college soccer developed HS talent there would be half a dozen world class pros from the hundreds from each class, every year, but there's not. It's all based on individual talent being expressed, some more fully than others. Club soccer in this country is a scam as is college soccer. Only HS soccer represents value for girls and their families. Futsal is the future because parents won't let their kids play pickup in the street/park.
@@r2dad282 No, it only confirms you are a child without an understanding of the history of soccer. It's still producing good players but it's no longer completely necessary, as the elimination of the draft shows.
Plenty of the current USWNT members went to college. Just because it didn't work out for you doesn't mean it's useless.
@davidt3956 That's funny---my kids tell me I'm old AF.
1 thing US soccer youth has to end is pay to play
Other countries have it as well, so the mere existence of PTP isn't in itself the problem. Club soccer should be asking itself what it can do, given the constraints of its business model, to simulate street/pickup ball as that's where the real development occurs. For me that's futsal but what do I know I'm only a child.