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The more TDS shouldn't be the gold standard for ranking youth soccer players. They are no better than the NBA, NFL and MLB GMs ranking draft picks.
If TDS was so great, why did they rank Amber Munerlyn higher than Rose Lavelle during during their youth. I know, because Munerlyn was on the YNT team and Rose Lavelle wasn't. 4 yrs later Rose Lavelle was the #1 NWSL draft pick and on the national team.
It's worse than that. She wasn't ID'd until she was called into the U18 WNT prior to graduating HS in 2013. The reason that is significant is because Amber was on the 2012 U17 WWC team their junior year and the next year Lavelle, who was either missed or was a "late bloomer," just got on the YNT radar the following year. I find it hard to believe that she was simply a late bloomer with her level of technical mastery. TDS just did the usual and based their rankings on YNT camps and not actually watching players and the high level club games.
http://www.uwbadgers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2981