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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 3045771, member: 994"]
Who pays for the development system?

If you want to compete, you need to do it at a national level. Look no further than Spain and Germany, who have overhauled their entire development approaches over a decade+ and are now reaping the results.

Pay to play is simply not a viable system to find and develop the best talent and compete consistently against countries that employ far better development systems.

The problem is, the pay to play club circuits in soccer are the gatekeepers to the next level of development in the US. If you are an inner city youth and an elite athlete, how do you get on a pay to play elite club team in the US?

Barring an exception to the rule, you don't.

If you are playing American Football however, the gatekeepers are in the college space and no rock goes unturned to find elite athletes to develop and move forward. Inner city elite athletes are a huge part of the development system for the sport, and rightly so.

Also, comparing women to men in this regard is apples and oranges. The women certainly do not have a behemoth competitor sport like American football that finds and develops elite athletic talent better. We have a pay disparity between the sexes without a doubt, but the development resources department, we are fairly equitable. That's not so elsewhere in the world (to the US women's benefit.)
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