I said it before I will say it again, It is time to take the USA out of concacaf, I dont care about the circumstances of geography. NOBODY benefits from these qualifying rounds not even the USA. I am on this site seeing TT looking for a U-15 Goalie, yet the USA U-15 age group probley has 400 to 500 goalies who would show up to an open tryout. 100 of them would be presentable, 50 would be good, 25 of them would be great, and 7 of them would be amazing,and we can't find 1 (0ne) no not 1. Do not talk to me about Mexico, the truth of the matter is that the proximity of Mexico to the USA as well as the large influx of Mexicans into America and thus their kids benefiting from the American system and then going back and playing for Mexico has made them nothing more than America's other team. The number of girls on the Mexico starting team from California and the Soutwest of America who start and or play at least half the game is 8 that's right 8. TT and the other islands cannot ever compete on any level with the natural resources of USA the migrating dynamics of Mexico. The idea that the gap is closing is foolish, every so often TT will acquire a few girls to make it competive, but then it will only revert back to the normal course of things such as the TT U-15 looking for a goalie. Any one who thinks that a National Class goalie can be found, created, or manufactureds in 18 month or two years is fooling themselves. Even if we found a serviceable goalie she will be trained in a system that it is itself not at a National level so how can the goalie ever reach that level. Do I believe we should ever give up NO ,but we should admit what everyone knows That "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity". Change how, where and when we train our girls. , Training in Trinidad against other Trinidad girls will NEVER work, to small a pool to little talent. Take every dime we have allocated for Womens soccer in TT use to start a league for four and five year old TT girls, form more than one league if possible, these leagues should depend on some federation sponsorship and some parent payments. The leagues should have as their core values; teaching skills and an agreed upon playing style, be it possession, kick in run, it does not matter as long as it is consistant and uniformed across the island, from these leagues National Coaches, through recommendations and observations, should began to identify possible canidates for our National Teams these girls from about 9 years of age and on should began to work together as a team attending tournaments in the USA and other places where the competition prepares one for playing at the National level. I dont necessarily agree with the Chinese method of training nor do I believe we could afford it, or that a TT parent would allow for their daughter from about age 6 or 7 to go to a National school away from their parents where besides education the focus of that school is a particular sport, but something less than that may work. For those of you who wish to come on here and disagree I welcome your responses, it is after all the purpose of this site, but NOTHING you will say will change my mind about the USA being in our league for qualifiers, getting beat up by the same person every day does not build character, and while running from that person does not build character either, I want to find out what that person does and do the same thing, only better. I apologize for rambling but every time I see an island of barely a million people get dismantled by a country of 300 plus million I ask myself would the powers that be allow such a disparity if the losing side was of a lighter complexion, I hope that I am wrong about my assumptions.
