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Post by Soccerhouse on May 10, 2018 13:15:54 GMT -5
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Post by cleansheet on May 10, 2018 13:34:15 GMT -5
TFC not afraid to spend the big bucks.
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Post by gaprospects on May 10, 2018 15:41:36 GMT -5
Debate, debate, debate. Screw with the i.d. & development system every year. Doesn't matter. This link right here is why U.S. Men's soccer stinks, period. Pay. Nobody is spending the big bucks. It is beginning to change and soccer is just now starting to attract quality U.S. male athletes but the stupid euro-transplant coaches are still either clueless or in denial that their beloved beautiful game does not already corner the market on the best of the best athletically here, and the now fifty-something-year-old Americans that run U.S. soccer at all levels were the wussies of the U.S. sports world when they played the game here in the 70's. The only way to neutralize their corrosive effects is to raise salaries across the board. Substantially. But, hey, it still pays more than the Championship Dart Circuit, so there's that. I recently watched arguably the best boys youth team in the nation (i believe the best anyway) in a certain age group and fully half of that team would be playing rec league in any other sport. The best team in the nation. Half rec league quality athletes. This is just a bit dramatic. I don't believe that better athletes play one sport or another as kids just because the 0.001% of people who make it professionally make more money. And I don't know how you're definitively judging the athletic ability of kids that are still growing. Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans was 6'2" as a high school junior, and look at him now. Lol. So many people talk about how the US would be better at soccer if the "best athletes" played the sport and not football, basketball, etc. And then those same people turn around and talk about how Iniesta wouldn't make his high school team because "all we care about in players are size and speed." You can't have it both ways
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Post by Soccerhouse on May 10, 2018 21:28:44 GMT -5
What are rookie salaries in Europe and what are the young Americans over there making? (Jones Torres Sargent)
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