I have been mulling this�And I would just add that I believe soccer rewards COACHING and TEAM DISCIPLINE. If a coach and team are committed, I believe they can compete with teams that are actually superior in talent because in soccer you actually CAN "build from the back."
As I have stated, since SC is still behind other states as a soccer state, we lack a deep and wide pool of female players�not that the talent we haven't isn't strong�it is. But SC teams will still tend to be not as strong from #1 player to #11 player compared to GA or TX or OK(I think we have caught NC). To be competitive, then, our best coaches play defensively�and we are often more competitive regionally that we once were. If it appears we can't/don't score, I think that is a marker of how we compare regionally, not a truism about our attacking ability.
