US Soccer Development

In order for the US to eventually become as elite as Europe or South America, both on the club and international level, they are going to need to figure out a way to develop players much, much better. The current system in which the USFA operates in developing players, in my opinion, might be the worst in the world. In the richest country in the world with 330 million people and to lose to Jamaica and Guatamala in World Cup qualifiers is quite pathetic. The best way for the US to go about developing players must start in the MLS. The current MLS formats barely allows a player develop at all. If a player does not make the team his first time, he has no opportunities to improve his game. He just goes off into what ever career he studied in college, or worse, he couldn't afford college and depended on soccer to make a living and now he's helpless. The MLS must form into a European league like the EPL or Serie A or La Liga. It must start lower divisions to allow players to work their way up the ranks and get better and better to finally play on a top division MLS team. With the amount of money the United States has, the potential in this country is boundless. Not only would lower divisions help improve players, it would then lead to a high quality of play in the MLS, which would then lead to a better national team. What does all of that lead to? More people paying attention to the greatest sport in the world in the US. What does that lead to? More money. With more money, it would only get better and the US would become a true superpower in world football, along the likes of Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Brazil and others. The sad part is, there has been absolutely no talk of any of this ever going to happen. The US football association is just going to continue to force players to either make the team or not and then just leave it up to a coach to fix everything on the national team. The NFL has the college system, the NBA has the D-league, the NHL has the AHL and junior leagues, the MLB and Triple, double, single A AND college. Italy has Serie B, C1, C2, D and hundreds, litterly hundreds of other divisions. Spain, England, Germany all have countless lower divisions of football. All, and I mean all, of those leagues have massive fan bases, except the MLS. The potential is massive for the US, but the wrong people are running the show.