Soccer scouting in America has always been about one major question: how in the world will we find all the talent in this hilariously huge country with so few resources? The answer to that question for decades has been simple: we don’t. We go to the big tournaments around the country that all the traveling youth clubs come to and hope that some day we can bring in more scouts to get a wider net.
This is a poor plan, and the illusion of organization at the youth level in the United States has been one of U.