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As U.S. Soccer's Youth Technical Director, Claudio Reyna believes a key to improving American
player development is convincing more youth clubs to strive for a style of play conducive to
nurturing talent. The 78-club U.S. Soccer Development Academy, which kicked off its fifth season
this month, is a integral part of the national team program's quest to improve American soccer.
Some 78 clubs currently comprise US Soccer's Development Academy and three of those clubs—FC
Delco, PA Classics and Players Development Academy—are part of the Philadelphia Union's Youth
Development Affiliate program.
Evaluations of these clubs were first started by US Soccer in 2007 with the founding of the
Development Academy.
Jurgen has some work to do.When the US Men's National Team took on Belgium, it was yet another
learning experience. The team was coming off a 1-0 loss against Costa Rica and was hoping to
improve on the performance. They did not. The Americans fell 1-0 to a remarkably powerful Belgium
side. Still, there were several things I noticed throughout this match and really over the past two
matches.
We asked former U.S. MNT midfielder Claudio Reyna about his thoughts on the last time the USA met
Belgium. Reyna played 90 minutes in that game, which was just months before the 1998 FIFA World Cup
in France.
"We came off playing a strong Dutch team in Miami and it was one of the first times in our history
where we played back-to-back friendlies against European teams," said Reyna.
Charles Boehm wrote recently about how the new USSF curriculum that was created by Claudio Reyna is
starting to make it's way into our youth soccer setting here in the United States.
Last year U.S. Soccer hired Claudio Reyna as the federation's youth technical director, tasking
the former Men's National Team star with evaluating and revitalizing the nation's approach to
player development from the ground up.
Oct. 7, 2001, is a day that lives in U.S. Soccer history on many levels. Being the first team to
represent the United States in international competition since Sept. 11, the U.S. pulled out a
thrilling 2-1 victory against Jamaica, and with the other results in CONCACAF qualifying improbably
going their way, the team qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup that day.
- Jason Davis
The theme most prevalent thus far in Jurgen Klinsmann's tenure as USMNT head coach - all month and
change of it - is the movement towards integrating America's abundant Latin soccer influence into
the team. In part because Klinsmann has made it his cause cause célèbre (in concert with imbuing
in the team a more attacking, fluid style - more on that in a minute), we can't go more than a few
hours without a new piece waxing on about it, without the Paul Gardners of the world bellowing
"FINALLY!
All the news that's fit to drink.
And because you'd rather have a beer than be reading all the time... we've taken the day's top news
and given it the Reader's Digest-treatment so you can get to that post-work pint quicker.
* Grant Wahl says FIFA needs to get it's own "Red Zone Channel" like the NFL.
Photo: Paul Rudderow
Union
In this week's power rankings roundup, the Philadelphia Union leap four spots from no. 10 to
sixth at MLSsoccer.com. They jump three spots to no. 6 at SBI and at Soccer America. The Union move
up two spots to sixth at WV Hooligan. At ESPN, the Union move up two spots to ninth.
One of the things to do when reviewing the release of the USSDA/USSF Academy ratings is figure
out how the MLS teams rate compared to each other. The Philadelphia Union are hard to rate as their
structure is unique at the Academy level. One of the ratings (Player Development) seems to favor
teams on the East as they are more likely to get picked for national team games due to a proximity
bias and it also rewards teams that sign players that they don't intend to play.
