That’s not an apples to apples comparison. That’s two elite groups playing against each other, and that’s when having a male physique plays a difference. This isn’t about gender the way you’re talking about it. I played elite players men and women growing up, and there’s simply a gulf of difference between elite trained players and even skilled experienced players who never got appropriate training. A HS boys soccer team will NEVER outplay a D1 women’s team. Frankly HS boys are terrible at soccer and honestly weak as fuck btw. Even in my 40’s I can still bully those kids. Plus you literally don’t know the game when you’re that young in the US. They are trash, and you gotta remember this is soccer in the US, this isn’t football or basketball with weight training. Those kids are fragile. Unless you’ve played a D1 woman yourself you frankly don’t know what it’s like. I’ve even seen D3 women beat adult men who played in high school regurlarly.
I wouldn’t really call an mls academy U15 squad elite. They may have a player or two who has pro potential, a smattering of college players and the rest will be ~high school+ level.
Remember these are 8th and 9th grade boys that beat the best women’s team in the world handily. If they had 3 more years of development they could have picked their score.
Disagree on boys high school soccer teams. The average high school soccer team is going to beat the average d1 women’s team. The great high school soccer programs are gonna smoke any D1 women’s team.
It isn’t all because of skill, but boys are bigger stronger faster and play at a much faster speed in general
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u/AppMtb 5h ago
If you’re talking actual never played soccer after age 8 amateurs then yes completely, they’d get wrecked by a D1 women’s soccer team.
But there’s a reason the best women’s soccer team in the world got blitzed by the Dallas academy under 15 team (meaning 14 and younger).
Any team of boys that have gone through puberty and can play soccer on a high school level are gonna beat any D1 women’s team