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Dominating Denmark uploading today?tomorrow?

Did you see we have a friendly lined up with Portugal? I think they are listening lol

Is this enough to maybe relax on Sunil Gulati?

I hope matt miazaga gets a chance with the national team with brooks that can potentially be a great duo but if he doesn't work out there is possibly Erik palmer brown and Justin glad

The US youth teaching per se actually was pretty good for quite some time I'd say. The problem is the transition of those players into the professional MLS. In the youth programs the players get teached good. While they are there, they pay for that teaching after all. And that is in contrast to other countries youth programm. In Germany for example while a lot of people believe that the youth program is to teach the youth, effectively it is just sorting out the good youth players and the bad players, the bad players been kicked out and the youth players stay in the program. Now you might say "wait, why is Germany doing it? Don't they want to continue investing in those who are allready in the program?". Well, because their seed is not garantued the youth players have to compete with the others for a spot. While it doesn't garantue the absolute best teached players, it prepares them for the transition into the professional clubs in the Bundesliga.

On the other hand the US youth is teached very well but when they transition into the MLS they become seeded players because they come from those academies and therefore have a head start before the others not coming from the academies and they simply stop developing. Pulisic is a prime example: he comes out of the youth program from the USA but was scouted pretty early by BVB Dortmund and continued growing in the Bundesliga. The US youth lack the continuation of progress. In an interview Lalas once sayed that the current US national team are the most blessed soccer team in the USA history ever, they had the best training possibilites, the most money spent on them, the best environment – yet the current USMNT players turned out to be the most entitled (at least it seemed that way to me) players in the USMNT history. While the USMNT back then had to fight for every progress very hard they had way more drive then the current players. The current USMNT has lost their edge. The mentality of winning all games home and hopefully get some point on the road also feed into that problem. And players returning from European leagues to play in the MLS for a high salary and a garantued spot in the starting eleven ain't helping much either.

It's great that you guys seem to have some talented youngsters but I really fear for their future if they choose to remain in the USA as the MLS just has a horrible history when it comes to talent development.

There are so many problems with how you do things over there imo, and most of them come down to the whole franchising league system without promotions and relegations. It results in the MLS being too "relaxed" as there's nothing to really lose. If you have to fight desperately against relegation there's something on the line, something that forced you to do absolutely everything you possibly can to fight for every single point etc. and that results in a much more competitive league and a higher quality of football, there are no easy games where the opposition has nothing to fight for etc. That means the players get to play on a higher quality level as everyone wants to fight tooth and nail for every point.

Then there's the problem that the MLS teams are far too rich for how "bad" they are. That means they can just go spend big on some semi-retired European "big name" or some South American players from a "poor" country, and that just makes it harder for American talents to break through to the first team. How can you expect an upcoming talent to fight against Beckham, Zlatan, Pirlo or whatever? Which 17 year old (as an example) is going to knock Zlatan off the first team?

You also have far too few top tier teams in your country to begin with. You have a MLS team for something like every ~14 million players. If you took that "teams per capita" level to Europe, that'd mean that countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia etc. wouldn't have a single professional football team. In reality they all have their own entire league systems with pro teams, semi-pro teams, amateur teams, youth academies, youth leagues etc. all with promotion and relegation systems in place.
That obviously results in a lot of American potential talents never getting a chance as there's so few teams that can potentially spot them, sign them, train them etc. so a lot of potential talents simply never gets the chance in USA. Even if you're not going to be the next Pulisic that doesn't mean you're bad, that you can't possibly ever go professional, that you won't ever get the chance to play on the USMNT or whatever. But unless you really stand out in the USA you may never get the chance at all.

Take the American goalkeeper Ethan Horvath as an example here, he now has 3 caps for the USMNT and he signed his first pro contract with a Norwegian team ffs. That's hardly world beaters but he took the chance and signed with a "bad" (relatively speaking) team to get a break, and it worked out for him. He might never have gotten the chance in the MLS but by going to Norway where there's a lot more teams he got playtime, good training etc. and is now playing in a big team in Belgium. Even "bad" Norwegian teams are constantly being scouted by larger European teams so it's not like going to Norway is a dead end by any means, if you stand out you'll be spotted and bought by someone bigger.

Or take the winger Jonathan Amon who decided to go to FC Nordsjælland in Denmark. He has his first cap already and he's only 19 years old. He gets top tier training, a good competitive environment and league, and he gets plenty of first team experience. He'd likely not have gotten first team experience if he had signed for LA Galaxy or whatever, as he'd have to first knock off some overpaid "big name" star player to break into the team. He's doing great in the Danish league now and getting plenty of playing time, and you can bet that plenty of scouts have already spotted him and are keeping an eye on him. Unless he suddenly becomes shit overnight, or gets ruined by injuries or something, you can bet he won't be playing in Denmark forever.

I really think that American talents should get out of the USA as early as they possibly can, which is sort of a shame really. I doubt Pulisic would be the player that he is today if he hadn't gone to Dortmund as well, they have a history of developing good young players and actually giving them a chance in the first team. Playing in the Bundesliga as a teenager will obviously help you develop a hell of a lot faster, as it's one of the best leagues in the world.
Even if you aren't the next Pulisic I still think you should get out of USA ASAP honestly, I'd almost say especially if you aren't the next Pulisic as you may simply be discarded over there if you don't immediately stand out in some big way.

Agains you can look at an actual player as an example, Perry Kitchen is hardly a Pulisic but he has played in a "mediocre" Scottish team and a "mediocre" Danish team. By going to Europe he got a chance to play first team football in a good competitive environment and to potentially impress the scouts that regularly watch those matches. You obviously get paid reasonably well in both Scotland and Denmark if you're a professional football player as well, not Messi-money or anything of course but more than enough to live well while having the chance of potentially getting spotted by a bigger club if you're doing well on the pitch. By playing for "mediocre" teams you're also not that expensive to buy for other and bigger teams so you're not "stuck" in Scotland or Denmark forever if something better comes up. Players in MLS teams risk becoming stuck in a relatively bad league because their clubs are so rich that they don't need to ever sell you, so your price tag may be huge for your skill level, making you less interesting for clubs in better leagues.

There's also an American player (Emmanuel Sabbi) playing for the Danish team Hobro IK currently, and he's getting plenty of first team experience there. The team is really struggling this year and may end up getting relegated but he still gets plenty of first team experience playing against better teams, and should they get relegated he can likely easily find a new club to play for if he wants to. He's likely available for like $750k or something so should a bigger club want him, he's not stuck in Hobro IK forever.
He first tried making it in Spain but when that didn't work out he chose to sign for a struggling Danish side so now he's getting paid to play professional football, get to be seen on TV, get to impress scouts from bigger teams etc. and likely get to move on to something bigger and better soon, and then he'll get even more money and play in an even more competitive environment which will only make him a better player.

There are just too few teams in the USA, and they're too rich so you risk getting stuck there forever, so I honestly hope (both for them personally and for American football/soccer) that those current American talents try to get out of USA as soon as they can. They're get more competition, get to compete with European talents, get more chances of first team experience etc. all helping them develop as footballers.