Off Topic USA to ban under 10's from heading the ball.

WSTiger · Nov 12, 2015

Bengals Tiger said: ↑

I've coached more than 20 teams in the US, boys' teams and girls' teams, from age 5 to 16. The young kids would usually raise their hands to protect their heads, even though the balls were smaller and quite a lot lighter than for the older groups. Tackling was always allowed, but was pretty random, but this was almost 20 years ago.
At least here in Ohio, soccer is rampant. Every available field -- and there's a lot of them -- is taken throughout both the Spring season and the Fall season. The winters are far too cold to play over here.
The standard here is surprisingly high; I was amazed when we arrived here almost 30 years ago. I can guarantee that the best US high school teams would beat most of the best UK high school teams; and similarly for the 'select' teams. Certainly, my own teams wupped all the UK (and German) select teams that came over to visit. The expressions on the coach's faces were always a sight to behold.
Watch the US men's team in the next few WC's. You may be surprised. The US women, of course, are the current world champions.
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And at some point the US mens team will wind the world cup.

ElTigre · Nov 12, 2015

Bengals Tiger said: ↑

Watch the US men's team in the next few WC's. You may be surprised.
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The US national team is always competitive now but never quite seems to have enough punch up front. That's been so for twenty years.

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