"If you're in the soccer world, you know the best players don't want to play high school anymore." van der Most is full of himself and perhaps some other, similarly smelling and mostly useless matter. I believe that few, if any, high school players would, if given the choice, be happy to give up the opportunity to represent his or her high school for the miniscule chance to make a national team. But, they are not given the choice. I would like to see the statistical probability a teenaged player has of making the national team. Thirty out of how many millions? The probability of earning a soccer scholarship to college is only a bit better. And, how many members of the current MNT and WNT played in high school? Let’s poll them and ask if they would give up those memories. I don’t know which “soccer world” van der Most is from, clearly not the 3rd rock from our sun.
