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[Ibo @iboster52]

@KILLJ0HNSON @notahhuman @SebC__ IM sorry but you guys are absolutely clueless about Football and it shows. These kids showed "problem solving skills" (whatever the fuck tha tmeans) multiple times in this short clip. And they are 8. If you think anything here on display is "repetition" then you are braindead

[Ibo @iboster52]

@NobletStrength `You should be emberassed that a continent where Basketball is not even top 10, produces all of the MVPs right now. That you could barely beat France in the Olympics despite having a talent pool 20x as large

[Ibo @iboster52]

@NobletStrength Brother, do you realize Basketball is not even a top 10 sport in Europe?

[Ibo @iboster52]

@notahhuman @SebC__ You guys are genuinely insane lmao. Imagine being so braindead

[Ibo @iboster52]

@akafaceUS Do everyone a favor and stick to video games

[Ibo @iboster52]

@MikeHerndonSk1 Why dont you use your school system? It already offers the massive advantage that it maximises the player and talent pool. You just need to have proper coaches in the schools instead of random dads. This should be way easier than to setup an entire grasroots academy system

[Ibo @iboster52]

@DomVapers @erikec17 You dont have to do this of course, but then you also cant complain why the US can't compete in Soccer.

[Ibo @iboster52]

@DomVapers @erikec17 I mean, if you want to maximise the talent output this is the way yeah. You can't compete with other countries otehrwise. Kids are also not forced, if they dont have fun anymore, they can just quit. I played 10 years in that youth setup in Germany

[Ibo @iboster52]

@markallanbovair But dont you already have this in place with your schol sport system? Kids can compete with the best local talent through their school teams, why the need for tehse travel teams?

In Europe there is no school sports, so academies exist instead. But you have the school sport

[Ibo @iboster52]

@gdavies88 @StanCollymore So the US just doesnt have this entire youth infrastructure that is needed to keep up with european top countries

[Ibo @iboster52]

@gdavies88 @StanCollymore And: In Europe the volunteers get coaching certificates and education from the federation. So they know what the modern training methods and drills are, what to focus on etc. In US, even if a parent volunteers for his primary school team, they dont have such qualification.

[Ibo @iboster52]

@StanCollymore So they are doomed to stay in this purgatory. YOu need academies to keep up with Europe, but without volunteers academies cost money, which nobody is willing to pay there other than the parents, which makes coahces focus on profit instead of development etc.

[Ibo @iboster52]

@StanCollymore And in your example: It onyl cost you 400$ because at the grassroot level the people involved were volunteers. This just will never work in the US. So the alternative is government funding and subsidies, which also will never happen in the US ("Why my taxes pay youth soccer???")

[Ibo @iboster52]

@wwwojtekk You dont need 300m people for this to work.

[Ibo @iboster52]

@wwwojtekk Also, during the 2010s Island was a better team than USA. A country of 300,000. There are more kids playing HS soccer in the US than there are people in Island.

Its about optimizing the infrastructure, recognizing talent, funneling them to acadmeies, providing coaching

[Ibo @iboster52]

@RSS_D4 @stevemagness You are partly correct but not on the education part. Most of the pro level academies require academic success and provide private tutoring and teachers to their players.

Its not education that falls behind, its childhood and friends etc.