What Argentina gets right about youth soccer — and what the U.S. gets wrong

Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5126x3417+0+0/resize/5126x3417!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7c%2Fa4%2Fe84805c04008bce2436595d04546%2Fgettyimages-963426734.jpg' alt='Children wait to play football in the minor leagues of Newell's Old Boys, where Argentine football star Lionel Messi used to play in Rosario, Argentina, 2018.'/><p>Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?</p><p>(Image credit: Eitan Abramovich)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-5924666' />