BY: Ryan Kennedy

There’s a fantastic article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the Dutch soccer factory run by the famous Ajax team, which produces some of the country’s best players and does so by bringing them into the fold as children.

The hook of the article is that America doesn’t know how to raise elite soccer players: Despite a much bigger population, the U.S. development model of heavy game schedules, parents paying for their kids to play on elite teams and a focus on winning by said elite teams does not yield results.

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