mckerney
07-23-2003, 01:36 AM
It looks like a FOFCer will become the next national team trainer, and we could probably keep him there as long as we'd like, and I was wondering how commited everyone else here was to making the USA national team a potential world cup winner.
As has been stated here recently, the US has a smaller user base meaning fewer youth pulls, meaning fewer quality youth pulls. This means that it is more important that the quality players that do come out of the US system are properly trained to benefit the US team. This most likely means it is in our best interest to keep them on US teams. I look at the transfer wire and the top bid for a 17 year old solid playmaker/scorer is that of a Svergie team. He will most likely train him into a quality player for his team, though he will likely change nothing if Team USA has different needs for him than his team (assuming he makes it that is).
Now, I know it will take a few seasons for most of us to get to this level, but how committed would hattrickers at FOFC be towards bettering the national team, even if it takes sacrifices for your team (say a few years down the line there arises a situation where you would have to chose between being able to advance to Major League or making your player more world cup ready).
All that said, I'm very curious how many of you would be more interested in training world cup players at the potential risk of the quality of your team (while obviously not running your team into the ground for a national player, but like the aforementioned ML type situation), and also, would FOFC be able to come together to form a bunch of teams with the goal of training world cup player?
As has been stated here recently, the US has a smaller user base meaning fewer youth pulls, meaning fewer quality youth pulls. This means that it is more important that the quality players that do come out of the US system are properly trained to benefit the US team. This most likely means it is in our best interest to keep them on US teams. I look at the transfer wire and the top bid for a 17 year old solid playmaker/scorer is that of a Svergie team. He will most likely train him into a quality player for his team, though he will likely change nothing if Team USA has different needs for him than his team (assuming he makes it that is).
Now, I know it will take a few seasons for most of us to get to this level, but how committed would hattrickers at FOFC be towards bettering the national team, even if it takes sacrifices for your team (say a few years down the line there arises a situation where you would have to chose between being able to advance to Major League or making your player more world cup ready).
All that said, I'm very curious how many of you would be more interested in training world cup players at the potential risk of the quality of your team (while obviously not running your team into the ground for a national player, but like the aforementioned ML type situation), and also, would FOFC be able to come together to form a bunch of teams with the goal of training world cup player?