@Rev210c@HappySoccerGuy Did this w my girls starting at -age 8
By 10 we had multiple girls juggling over 1000
Their skills improved & maybe more importantly their confidence was sky high!!
@HappySoccerGuy 1) every coach has these
2)
Until 11v11 I moved player around every game
Including my goalies, had to play on the field as well as in goal
3) every kid played half a game unless we were in OT in state cup
4) never!!
@CJohnCC@ThatCroatianGuy Completely disagree w 3
It would encourage youth development because that’s the cheapest route to getting better & eventually getting promoted
So the chip in the ball detected the Croatian player’s hair vs Portugal but it didn’t work when the ball hit the freaken cable of the camera to favor England?
@AlexiLalas Coaches can still make $$
Do academy coaches in Europe work for free?
Of course not
But the system is paid for through transfer fees that fund the academies
US needs that
Along w relegation!!
In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.
That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.
FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.
US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.
So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.
Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.
Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.
They will not.