Hello and welcome to your favorite new television program EMEYAE (Extreme Makeover English Youth Academy Edition)! We are so excited to see you! Basically, after the new EPPP guidelines were passed, a lot of people got angry. Local communities felt threatened that the free movement of individual youth labor would leave them devastated.

What follows is an initial list of 25 things obstructing the US from becoming a soccer powerhouse.

The "what's wrong" topic is always around and maintains a certain level of attention. Then, when our national teams flounder, the topic spikes and dominates the discussion.

And of course everyone and their mom has an opinion.

The IMSoccer News staff was well-represented in Kansas City last Tuesday for the Gold Cup Group C doubleheader featuring matches between Panama-Canada and the USA- Guadeloupe. Superfan Tim Hayes, photographer Jeremy Olson and myself were all in attendance at the sold-out, brand-new LIVESTRONG Sporting Park and it was a fantastic couple of days in KC.

Once the trophies have been lifted in emphatic triumph then dropped by players unaccustomed to using their hands, the victors' confetti is swept aside along with the memories of the previous season to open an extended summer of whispers. While the Home Nations do have the odd European qualifier or international friendly over the summer and clubs partake in pre-season matches after the players enjoy a few weeks on holiday, most of this summer's action will be taking place out of the public eye as club managers haggle with player agents over transfer fees, battle creditors for unpaid services from last year, and contradict the media which are rumouring on what they are doing in the absence of actual football.

In the dog eat dog world of sports that surrounds us all, it is rare to see instances of "gentlemanly conduct" as our fathers used to call it. It would be wrong of me to write that all athletes have lost the true spirit of competition, but as a fan, it appears that money drives almost everything.