That's what's known in the trade as a non-article article. There's absolutely nothing new there.
But I don't think the US is ever going to solve this problem from the top down. Until a huge percentage of kids play soccer spontaneously, we will always be at a disadvantage. My family spends the summers in Poland and every day there are kids playing pickup games at the park between the buildings. Every day: no coaches, no parents, no structure, no travel, no "philosophy"... just kids playing and having fun on their own. How can Poland produce word class players with so little early coaching? The trick is that _every kid in Poland_ does this. It's a question of statistics. Iceland only has 300k people, but they _all_ play soccer when they can and all the best athletes play professionally. The top athletes in the US are split between basketball, football and a little baseball and hockey. Except in some pockets like SoCal, soccer is 3rd on the list at best.
The other difference I see is that at younger ages, before U14, there are no academies and almost no leagues and certainly none of this win at all costs or possessive coaches bs. In fact, kids hardly play organized games at all. They don't really take soccer that seriously until about 14 or 15. If you do find coaching at the younger ages, it's all drills. Very fast drills over and over again. We had our son train with one of the coaches from the largest academy in Warsaw (that famously cut Lewandowski for being too small, but that's another story) and asked what he should work on before his DA season started. He was baffled that we even had a serious season at all at his age (11) and said he should just have the ball at his feet as much as possible and have fun playing soccer. "Games don't matter anyway until they're 15."
