This article appeared in Puro Football Soccer Magazine in 2005:

“I had a Mexican father tell me the clubs were “loco” because they traveled to San Diego when the kids could not even control the ball or did not even love the game. Imagine moving here from Mexico, signing your child up for soccer and realizing they only played from late August to late October and then most kids moved on to basketball and then baseball. Imagine that same family wanting their child to play more serious club soccer and finding out they had to travel to Sacramento, San Jose, Modesto, Fresno, San Bernardino, San Diego, and when they were older, Idaho, Florida and Phoenix. Imagine then choosing to play for a class III team and beating everyone in your league but not be allowed to move up to compete in leagues against other better teams because they are class I leagues and your team is labeled “class III”. This was the world of soccer before last year. The world moves teams up and down but in our area we give clubs and teams a monopoly. We believe all too often it is a monopoly of mediocrity.”

You might have noticed that neither the U.S. nor Mexican men's national teams have played a match since the end of the World Cup, and there's a good reason for that.

Neither has a coach..... 

Training

Training Boys and girls at this age...

• "shoot up" in height when they enter puberty. This rapid growth creates an imbalance between the length of their torso and legs;
  
• often find it difficult to move around in a fluid manner because of the physical changes they are experiencing
  
• on the other hand demonstrate greatly improved strength and speed.

"Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends"
Zinedan Zidane