There's still a real value to having that. Now, first off, the NCAA has treated soccer barbarically...
for you to play 20-some odd games in three months.
Meanwhile, they changed the basketball schedule, the baseball schedule, football, we all know it's its own entity and everything.
Every other sport's been treated with respect for its evolution and how it's played. My father played the same schedule I had 20 years before me in college.
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It makes no sense," Twellman said.
Twellman concluded that while international scouts view American talent favorably up to age 16, the United States falls behind globally in the critical subsequent years because young players lack access to continuous, competitive game minutes.
"Now, college has addressed it. They're gonna change it.
We just need more games.
To answer your question in a different way, every scout around the world, where they text me and call me, and everyone that's watching the United States' landscape, they don't bring up anything up to the age of 16.
I still think we can be more inclusive, less expensive, not spending time, four hours in the car, all that.
That's a different kind of conversation. But they all say, 17 to 21, we're still behind.
Around the world, those players are getting meaningful minutes. We need a huge pool of players who are getting meaningful minutes.
Jamie Vardy would have been kicked out of the United States soccer landscape in the blink of an eye.
