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under-17 team was hammered 4-0 by Germany in the second round of the FIFA U-17 v-moda earbuds World Cup. If the game appeared to match pros against amateurs, it's because it essentially did. is "the reason we haven't developed a playing style," Claudio Reyna says. players during their summer spending sprees. Clint Dempsey, the most successful American currently working abroad, is set to begin his sixth season at Fulham, a club that never has qualified for the UEFA Champions League.

It has been a humbling summer for American soccer, but not an unfair or surprising one. Soccer Development Academy, a four-year-old league for 15- to 18-year olds that stresses training and limited but high-level competition. Soccer turned to Claudio Reyna to find the answer. Reyna, 37, was born and raised in northern New Jersey, the son of a former pro from Argentina. national team at the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and starring for clubs in England, Germany and Scotland.

Over the course of a year in his position as youth technical director, Reyna visited top clubs and training centers around the world to learn more about how they forge premier players. In April, he unveiled the product of that work -- a coaching curriculum designed to unify the development of American players up to 13 years of age and give them the foundation needed v-moda headphones white to succeed in more demanding environments.

"It's time to look at what we're doing as a coaching force in this country and understand the big V-MODA picture," Reyna told Sporting News. It's the world. The world is our competition. That has to be the mindset of coaches around the country, that they're part of something bigger."

The curriculum is comprehensive and outlines systems of play (Reyna prefers the versatile, attacking and ball possession oriented 4-3-3 that fueled decades of dominance at Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona), age-appropriate practice plans, coaching points and philosophies and tactical principles. The idea is to create the same framework of understanding for players, coast to coast.

"Imagine our school system if all the teachers just went in and said, 'I'm going to do whatever I want.' We'd be all over the place. We'd be a third-world country in terms of education," Reyna said. "The idea is, let's do the same in soccer. One year builds on the next. Build it up and have a collective vision that prepares kids for the real world."

America's unique history presents unique challenges. The urge to win at the youth level can lead misdirected coaches and parents to stress size and athleticism over skill and to limit the experimentation and subsequent mistakes a player needs to grow.

Understand that, and the wins will come when it matters.

"We need our coaches to become educators and teach the game and less managers and coaches trying to win games," Reyna said. "That means making the Monday through Friday the priority versus the Saturday or Sunday.