We don't have a cutthroat youth soccer system in the USA. Do we really want one?
We don’t have a focused youth soccer system in the USA. USYS, AYSO, US Club Soccer, the U.S. Soccer Development Academies, high school and college - so many teams, so many pathways, it’s all so very confusing. Other countries have more focused systems than this, cutthroat professionally-run youth academies that identify the best of the best and spit out the rest.