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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 741719" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>I'm not commenting on the issue of USA in 10 years, although Feicarsinn is along the right lines imo.</p><p></p><p>However these statements don't back up what you are trying to say. U20 point is quite far from the mark. Firstly as already pointed out, they were in a straight shoot out with Canada (who finished 2nd) to qualify, so there's no way not qualifying meant inferiority to the likes of Portugal (qualified automatically as hosts) or Hong Kong (qualified as best Asian beating Korea).</p><p></p><p>But more importantly, USA do not field their strongest players at U20 as most of them are playing college instead. If you look at their team, the majority of the players, such as players like Manoa, Clever never played U20. </p><p></p><p>There was even talk at them scrapping their U20 team altogether and focusing funds elsewhere as they've rarely field proper team resembling their place at that level. If they were to, then it's likely they would probably be one of, if not the strongest side in that tournament.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 741719, member: 48703"] I'm not commenting on the issue of USA in 10 years, although Feicarsinn is along the right lines imo. However these statements don't back up what you are trying to say. U20 point is quite far from the mark. Firstly as already pointed out, they were in a straight shoot out with Canada (who finished 2nd) to qualify, so there's no way not qualifying meant inferiority to the likes of Portugal (qualified automatically as hosts) or Hong Kong (qualified as best Asian beating Korea). But more importantly, USA do not field their strongest players at U20 as most of them are playing college instead. If you look at their team, the majority of the players, such as players like Manoa, Clever never played U20. There was even talk at them scrapping their U20 team altogether and focusing funds elsewhere as they've rarely field proper team resembling their place at that level. If they were to, then it's likely they would probably be one of, if not the strongest side in that tournament. [/QUOTE]
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