Re: Will the US win a FIFA World Cup in your lifetime??
In California, Youth soccer may have three times or more the participation than the "big three sports" combined.
And coming from the large number of youth players you are seeing more and more pro players and more pro players at the higher levels. My 24 YO son played from age 5 and still plays. I have seen about 6 or so local players that are in or near his age group that are in the MLS or playing in Europe.
It wasn't very long ago (say about 1990) that the US World Cup teams were made up of many college players and players from low tier leagues. Now you never see a college player at the national team level and maybe 70% of the national team players are playing for top division teams in Europe.
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