Why are European and South American soccer teams so much better than the USMNT and what are the most important elements of success lacking in the US Team?
2. Creativity: This one is totally an education issue or, in this case,
over education and is totally in US Soccer hands to fix. If you are a
boy growing up in South America, Europe or Mexico you just go play on
the street or the park and there is where you can run wild, try to do
crazy things with the ball and do it over and over. It is all
unsupervised from the coaching point of view; it’s just kids playing
soccer. America takes the opposite approach: everything is scripted.
Leagues like AYSO are great for introducing kids to soccer but they are
so heavy on instructions and drills that the kids’ creativity has no
place to develop. American soccer needs to get away from being so rigid
on formal training.
3. Coaching: Most coaches in South America and Europe (not only at the
pro level but pretty much every level below it) have spent their whole
life either playing or coaching soccer. The elite ones have gone abroad
to study and learn from the best soccer academies of the world. Tell me
how many American coaches have had a similar life, not many.
(CavemanCircus.com)
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