On Monday, mlssoccer.com’s Matt Doyle unleashed a massive piece on the best prospects and players from the many youth U.S. Men’s National Teams, stretching all the way back to 1995 and Tim Howard.
The piece is an excellent read, charting the ebbs and flows, highs and lows, moments of promise and pain of the USYNT throughout the years, but there is one common theme that is increasingly noticeable in the more recent years: the importance of playing the numbers.
Doyle himself highlights this in the conclusion of his piece:
“Talent production, even for the best teams in the world, ebbs and flows.