Iceland is a model of development
great article on how Iceland built its football culture. Could the US beat them? Maybe..
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/09/10/iceland-qualify-euro-2016-uefa
600+ UK football players in college playing NCAA
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34097904
This shows why we want to spend time developing our players in a academy system.
how to build the girls & women’s football into the future
what is wrong with US football (soccer)
Europe they are committed to the game and study it. we just wing it and think we are making knew approaches. Here are a few papers
Click to access Lamche12MPhil.pdf
Until the US federation has the leadership to really focus on building an environment that is development based not “pay to play” so its about the leadership to build a National Development Plan like Belgium in 2001 with Michel Sablon.
It has to be fun, inclusive, technical/tactical/football iq based and organized. The whole federation leadership should be canned as we have not done anything really in 10+ years if we are honest. And given the resources which are $$billions spent at all levels of football in the US we should be far better.
Barca is a machine! they are hammering Sevilla
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