What American soccer needs to do, (but probably won't)...
Let's take a peek at arguably the single best case study ever, Independiente del Valle
2007: Deller buys club. Instantly shifts focus from buying aging players to instead finding, housing, and developing raw talent across Ecuador
2010: They surge through lower divisions and finally reach Serie A
2014: They inject Spanish style methodology into their development: full time residence, (schooling, meals, tutoring, holistic "person" development), intense scouting network, tactical identity, 100% reinvestment loop. They don't spend on expensive and aging players, rather, every earned dollar is put back into their facilities and development
2016: Beat River Plate and Boca to reach Copa Libertadores Final, (an insane accomplishment if you know South American ball)
2020-2026: Regularly producing elite talent that is sold to Europe
Also, as a national team, Ecuador was not great by any stretch for many many years.
And then Independiente del Valle came along and single-handedly turned around the National team.
Which included beating Argentina this last qualification with an incredible 7 of the starters being from this club...
I fucking love America because it's a place that encourages you to fail. Blow up your life. Fall without a safety net. Start 7 businesses and go bankrupt. Join a cult. Get divorced 6 times. Make a ton of money in a ridiculous scheme and then blow it all on bad investments. Build a hydroponic shrimp tank business in your basement. Enroll your kids in a school where they practice telepathy. Have a secret family. Shoot your foot off with a gun. Buy drugs that make you go insane. Drive your RV off a cliff. Crash your own private plane off the coast during a storm. In America, you can fail so fast, and so hard, and so beautifully—every one of us has the opportunity to blow our wings off flying toward a crazy dream.
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