David Brooks and the New York Times open door to real debate about the role of US multinational distruction of American national soccer program
Is David Brooks and the New York Times calling for Soccer Academies replace the racist and dysfunctional NCAA and multinational control of the US national soccer program?
How does a country that lives one less than a dollar a day like Ghana ranked 48th soccer team in the world blow out the fifth rank United States national team?
Whats wrong with this picture.
It not the color or race of the players, maybe its the talent pool, incubation, training and playing the best , while limiting the role of US multinational corporations.
Poorly trained NCAA middle class white American soccer players, rather than America’s athletes , are being asked to go to war against elite working class professional trained players from the rest of the world. America is being blown out almost every time they go to war with the big dogs. These elite young players are selected from each country’s working class talent pool, not just their college talent pool. In many countries the African segment is reflective in the team’s best players.
Rather than import elite players, most countries develop them at home and then refined in advanced play in European and South America.
American soccer watchers and players trying to understand the political economy behind the crisis in the United States World Cup team can gain a little insight into why the NCAA need to be replaced with an inner city based network incubation academies system designed to develop World Class American elite players. Real insight into why the United States must start drawing on working class and African America talent pools can be gained by reading between the lines of David Brooks New York Times op-ed on June 22, 2006.
Mr. Brook’s notes the different(poor) preparation American youth get in NCAA College based soccer programs because that lack the world class standard.But he failures to note the very strong national public school soccer programs in other countries that create the elite player-trainees before high and professional training starts.
While Mr. Brook’s carefully avoids the politically charged race and class issue in the US World Cup team selection process, he makes it clear other countries; young soccer player’s gain critical technical advantages by going to professional level soccer training academies vs. weaker NCAA type college programs.
Without explaining the political economy behind the failure of the NCAA to develop World Class American soccer players or programs, Mr. Brooks openly note that the difference in preparation is bad for America’s World Cup prospects (and program). He states that “the difference in soccer training is part of a bigger phenomenon. That unexplained phenomenon Mr. Brooks avoids dealing with is the globalization of the American university system.
That is, rather than educating and training American students and players, the emerging focus of the American university system is to meet the increasing educational and training needs of US multinational corporations and their foreign business partners, at the expense of American students and athletes. Rather than the NCAA partnering with inner city public school systems to develop a national feeder system and soccer incubation centers, foreign developed soccer players are replacing American players to feed the college programs.
Increasingly the mission of the American university system is to incubate, train and education foreign students to fell the multinational jobs both in the US and aboard. This is great for the American corporation and countries like China, but not good for increasing numbers of American citizens and tax payers who can no longer afford higher education or the United State national program.
For most of America's best soccer players high is the end of the road.
The lack of after high school training and playing opportunities for American soccer players in a byproduct of this corporate centric misuse of the American university system and tax payer's money. The Williams sisters, the African American female tennis stars are a case in point of the failure of the NCAA programs and why the national soccer program should go to the inner city for the best athletes.
The emerging Latin American basketball players are the best know case of the structure and institutional weakness of the NCAA inner city policy.
How does a country that lives one less than a dollar a day like Ghana ranked 48th soccer team in the world blow out the fifth rank United States national team?
Whats wrong with this picture.
It not the color or race of the players, maybe its the talent pool, incubation, training and playing the best , while limiting the role of US multinational corporations.
Poorly trained NCAA middle class white American soccer players, rather than America’s athletes , are being asked to go to war against elite working class professional trained players from the rest of the world. America is being blown out almost every time they go to war with the big dogs. These elite young players are selected from each country’s working class talent pool, not just their college talent pool. In many countries the African segment is reflective in the team’s best players.
Rather than import elite players, most countries develop them at home and then refined in advanced play in European and South America.
American soccer watchers and players trying to understand the political economy behind the crisis in the United States World Cup team can gain a little insight into why the NCAA need to be replaced with an inner city based network incubation academies system designed to develop World Class American elite players. Real insight into why the United States must start drawing on working class and African America talent pools can be gained by reading between the lines of David Brooks New York Times op-ed on June 22, 2006.
Mr. Brook’s notes the different(poor) preparation American youth get in NCAA College based soccer programs because that lack the world class standard.But he failures to note the very strong national public school soccer programs in other countries that create the elite player-trainees before high and professional training starts.
While Mr. Brook’s carefully avoids the politically charged race and class issue in the US World Cup team selection process, he makes it clear other countries; young soccer player’s gain critical technical advantages by going to professional level soccer training academies vs. weaker NCAA type college programs.
Without explaining the political economy behind the failure of the NCAA to develop World Class American soccer players or programs, Mr. Brooks openly note that the difference in preparation is bad for America’s World Cup prospects (and program). He states that “the difference in soccer training is part of a bigger phenomenon. That unexplained phenomenon Mr. Brooks avoids dealing with is the globalization of the American university system.
That is, rather than educating and training American students and players, the emerging focus of the American university system is to meet the increasing educational and training needs of US multinational corporations and their foreign business partners, at the expense of American students and athletes. Rather than the NCAA partnering with inner city public school systems to develop a national feeder system and soccer incubation centers, foreign developed soccer players are replacing American players to feed the college programs.
Increasingly the mission of the American university system is to incubate, train and education foreign students to fell the multinational jobs both in the US and aboard. This is great for the American corporation and countries like China, but not good for increasing numbers of American citizens and tax payers who can no longer afford higher education or the United State national program.
For most of America's best soccer players high is the end of the road.
The lack of after high school training and playing opportunities for American soccer players in a byproduct of this corporate centric misuse of the American university system and tax payer's money. The Williams sisters, the African American female tennis stars are a case in point of the failure of the NCAA programs and why the national soccer program should go to the inner city for the best athletes.
The emerging Latin American basketball players are the best know case of the structure and institutional weakness of the NCAA inner city policy.
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