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• Tony #48, you've hit on another problem for the US. There is no top-quality coaching here. Not one American coach is qualified to develop young US prospects into potentially top-class players. Even the MLS academies lack that level of sophistication. The US has about 15 dazzling young prospects in the pipeline who will be candidates for the next World Cup. To my knowledge only about four are currently US-based. The rest are in Europe, including Alex Freeman, the brilliant right back we could have bought from MLS for $4 million back in January. Villareal bagged him instead. He was a starter for them by the end of the season, and his recent performance in the WC has roughly quintupled his value. All the other future US WC players can already be found at places like Chelsea, Barca, Augsburg, Hamburg, Parma and Hoffenheim. Not here. Incidentally, we do still have a chance to buy a future USA star at a reasonable price. By all accounts Noahkai Banks, a 19-year-old center back at Augsburg...
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