A bit more WAS: [nas] Frisco and the future of US soccer

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From: KLINDSTR@flash.net

>Sure, it wouldn't be tied into the P-40 program, but 
>the only reason the P-40 progam is out there is 
>because no one was developing these players before 
>hand.  I think it is safe to say that US soccer can 
>(and probably is) producing more than 40 players who 
>could benefit from similar training and be valuable 
>players on the world soccer market.  Look at Ken 
>Cooper - had planned on going to SMU this fall, but 
>now is headed to ManU.  Ryan Nunez is in a similar 
>situation, but since he has yet to get his US 
>citizenship, he is available for P-40.

Or Ralph, or Shavar Thomas, or many of the other 
foreign players who come to the US and play college 
soccer.  Imagine if we could get the youth from 
CONCACAF along with the US talent that for whatever 
reason isn't in the P-40 pipeline?

And recall, odds are with the right coaching, these 
facilities (if the system is set up like Bradenton) 
would probably be better than many of the similar 
programs in North America.  Imagine getting the best 
and the brightest from Costa Rica?  Honduras?  
Guatemala?  El Salvador?  Jamaica?  Mexico might be a 
little tough, but there would be some.

Give parents a chance to send their kids to school in 
the US AND they get top-level soccer training?  
Granted, that would require some significant up-front 
costs from adidas or whoever (which is why IMG works, 
with the Fed, Nike and IMG throwing money into it, and 
I think the parents might pay some, too....?) and 
would have to overcome the lack of income from the 
Fed, but if you look at what happened to Tim Howard, 
what almost happened to Bobby Convey, what will happen 
to Freddy Adu (if things go as they should - knock on 
wood), what should happen to DMB, you can see that 
there is the potential for lots of $$$ to be made.





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