“Is there something the soccer program here simply just doesn’t do?”

I think the primary difference is not treating teenagers like future soccer professionals. We have something resembling an academy system now, but it’s nothing close to Europe, where from young ages soccer essentially is what they do. It especially…

I think the point is that our opponents not only were players that had also never played together before, but in most cases hadn’t ever played a single international game at all, and our much more seasoned team, such as it is, didn’t even look remotely superior to those guys. Not to say an unimpressive friendly tie is…