{"id":37697,"date":"2024-04-05T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=37697"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:34:29","slug":"north-american-youth-soccer-is-the-best-its-ever-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=37697","title":{"rendered":"North American Youth Soccer is the best it\u2019s ever been"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5qz1rbzMlg?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>What do Generation Adidas Cup and Matias Almeyda have in common? No idea, other than we dug deep on both! Andrew, Doyle, David and Calen jump in the studio to chat about the stories of the day. Plus, everything you need to know from Week 7, including LAFC&#8217;s Shield hopes, the Fire&#8217;s ceiling and Real Salt Lake&#8217;s Twitter banter gone wrong!<\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; Intro <\/p>\n<p>0:33 &#8211; American youth soccer is in an amazing place &#8211; Generation adidas Cup recap<\/p>\n<p>22:15 &#8211; Our U.S. Open Cup Games to Watch<\/p>\n<p>24:53 &#8211; Best things we saw in Week 7<\/p>\n<p>31:38 &#8211; Matias Almeyda out in San Jose<\/p>\n<p>53:40 &#8211; Minnesota finally wins, Colorado\u2019s defense is slightly concerning<\/p>\n<p>56:13 &#8211; LAFC are flying &#8211; what is their ceiling?<\/p>\n<p>1:00:20 &#8211; SKC struggling, but Peter Vermes\u2019 job should be safe<\/p>\n<p>1:04:46 &#8211; Toronto hands Philly their first loss of the season<\/p>\n<p>1:06:24 &#8211; NYCFC hammers RSL, Taty gets back on track<\/p>\n<p>1:11:23 &#8211; Quick hit results<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE TO THE POD: https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/027WSUN&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel for more soccer content: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_c&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Follow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS<br \/>\n&#8211; Like us on Facebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MLS<br \/>\n&#8211; Follow us on Instagram: http:\/\/instagram.com\/mls<\/p>\n<p>For more information about MLS, go to the league&#8217;s official website: http:\/\/www.MLSsoccer.com<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h5qz1rbzMlg\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Generation Adidas Cup and Matias Almeyda have in common? No idea, other than we dug deep on both! Andrew, Doyle, David and Calen jump in the studio to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":37698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}