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I can't imagine this not changing fairly soon. How many beatings are they going to allow the GDA girls to take before, 1. they widen the net to open up the selection process and 2. the beatings destroy the reputation, credibility and influence of the GDA program. They are almost to the point where they are going to have to take the best XI to start on the field and then they can load the bench with GDA players so that they can claim to be majority GDA players on YNT rosters. The one thing that none of the teams can continue to do is getting beat, and soundly, by the competition. However, know US Soccer, they will likely go back to playing, and whooping, teams like El Salvador and then publicly claiming how great these US player are. Just a joke.
US Soccer has the advantage of D1 NCAA Soccer to develop and filter out the best players for it on the girls side. It is a sad but obvious truth. They get to select kids at 13/14 years of age and designate them as the future. They then create a self fulfilling by calling other kids in only occasionally. The YNT’s on the girls side are very cliquish and it makes it harder for the kids called in once to show their abilities especially if the ball is never passed to them or they possess skills that aren’t necessarily going to show up on a scoresheet.
They can misidentify all they want because ultimately they are going to pick most of their players from the top players from D1 who have performed and been developed by others. Really the underlying problem is that most of the best women’s coaches are coaching BIGTIME D1 programs. They are the best at identifying the talent and developing it. It’s hard for the best coaches to give up well paying positions for the volatility of coaching a YNT so all you get is the hacks that are cronies of the current administration.