What Area in your country produces the best players ????

[Guatefc]

I will hold my anwser for guatemala cause im am bias torwards a certain area but here are my guesses for the other Concacaf teams!!!

USA ; LA/ cali area and DC metro area, south FL

Mexico: i assume Mexico DF

CR????
TT?????england/usa????
jamaica????? england??

elsalvador????

honduras; im guessing Tegucigalpa, and san pedro sula

canada???

haiti??????

[Titan 7]

Costa Rica: Our caribbean province called Limon, I think that is where we get our best players.

[scarshins]

The US has changed quite a bit;

15 years ago, the only areas producing players capable of being pros usually came from (in order)

St Louis and a big area around it
New Jersey/ NYC metro/ eastern Pennsylvania
California
Dallas area
Seattle/Portland
Upstate NY
Chicago/Milwaukee area
Maryland/DC/Virginia
maybe North Carolina
maybe COnnecticut
maybe Detroit suburbs
maybe Florida
maybe various parts of Ohio
1 from Oklahoma

Now they can come from almost anywhere, but those areas are still the strongest

[rasadam]

TT?????england/usa????
jamaica????? england??
Get real, look on the whole, it's a very small amount of players that are playing for either T&T/Jamaica with just Caribbean roots.

In T&T, I would say the majority of our talent has come from the Port of Spain area (And some small towns just east of Port of Spain). I can think of Latapy, Lawrence, Whittley and a couple others. It's mostly due to demographics, football is played moreso by the north of Trinidad all along the east-west corridor. There have been quite a few good players from south though. Tobago did produce Yorke, on the other hand. Overall, have to say the PoS area (which is our capital) would have the higher footballers per capita.

[SoulflyTribeFC]

In the US, Southern California still produces the best players.

Dont know much about Mexico but it seems Mexico City and Guadalajara produce a lot of players too.

[scarshins]

Still? It's up in the air
California:
caliguri
wynalda
cobi jones
donovan
and some other guys

New Jersey:
Harkes
Ramos
Meola
Vermes
Reyna
Gaven
and some other guys

[Goofy]

At this point, probably Guadalajara, though for some strange reasons a couple of interesting niches would be Nayarit ,where there isn't a 1st division franchise yet; or Sinaloa, where soccer isn't even the most popular sport.

[Guatefc]

for guatemala it is hand down the state of Izabal guatemalas Caribbean coast ,player like henry stokes, acevedo, freddy garcia and of late they have been producing some top notch player in the last few decades , ,then guatemala city

[SoulflyTribeFC]

Still?

Yeah.

From the game against Poland, the US had the following Cali-bred players:

Carlos Bocanegra
Steve Cherundolo
Landon Donovan
Eddie Lewis

Of the players Arena called into the January camp, these were Cali-bred.

Landon Donovan
Jimmy Conrad
Kevin Hartman
Frankie Hejduk
Chad Marshall
Heath Pearce

[SoulflyTribeFC]

At this point, probably Guadalajara, though for some strange reasons a couple of interesting niches would be Nayarit ,where there isn't a 1st division franchise yet; or Sinaloa, where soccer isn't even the most popular sport.

I always thought those two places were strange places to produce players given the reasons you state but it seems like you hear of more and more players from Sinaloa and Nayarit.

[scarshins]

I was joking about the "still" part SoulFly.
NJ cast its shadow over US Soccer until around 1996, when guys began emerging from all over.
California has 3, 4 times the population of NJ.
But I guess they have produced a few pretty good players :D

I forgot more Jersey folks: Tim Howard, Giuseppe Rossi

[SoulflyTribeFC]

I was joking about the "still" part SoulFly.
NJ cast its shadow over US Soccer until around 1996, when guys began emerging from all over.
California has 3, 4 times the population of NJ.
But I guess they have produced a few pretty good players :D

I forgot more Jersey folks: Tim Howard, Giuseppe Rossi

Good points.

Gregg Berhalter is also from Joy-zee.

[jbeall]

Mathis, Wolff, and Rico Clark are all from metro Atlanta...

[DCatracho17]

Honduras:

El Progreso: Produced players like Tyson Nunez and Carlos Pavon.

San Pedro Sula: David Suazo

Puerto Cortez,Tela, and La Ceiba (coast line): Edgard Alvarez and most of our black player

Tegucigalpa: Amado Guevara, Ramon Nunez

Olancho: Ivan Guerrero

[MoRado]

Costa Rica: Our caribbean province called Limon, I think that is where we get our best players.


Disagree...

Wanchope is black but he is not from limon, same thing with medford
Tuma is from PZ
lots of players are from the central valley and Alajuela's rural places like san carlos

[odsum25]

The US grabs it's players from pretty much everywhere, but California certainly has an edge. Other than that I'd say Chicago, St. Louis, Maryland, some parts of Texas, and both metro New York and the Rochester area.

[Crazy_Yank]

I'm suprised the Mexican state of Veracruz doesn't produce more players for the national team or the big clubs. The last star that I can think was Luis "El Matador" Hernandez from Poza Rica, Veracruz.

[LMvCP]

I'm suprised the Mexican state of Veracruz doesn't produce more players for the national team or the big clubs. The last star that I can think was Luis "El Matador" Hernandez from Poza Rica, Veracruz.

Carlos Hermosillo was born in Cerro Azul, Veracruz.

Mexican with most goals in World Cup = Luis Hernandez
Mexican with most domestic goals in Mexico = Carlos Hermosillo

The state if Veracruz should be proud of producing those 2 players for what they have done. Luis has scored the most goals in World Cup play and Carlos has scored more league goals than any other Mexican

Also... Luis de La Fuente (aka Luis "pirata" Fuente) is also from Veracruz. They say he is one of the top 10 players in Mexican history. The stadium in Boca del Rio, Veracruz (near Veracruz) is names after him

[RED_HOT_CHILI_PEPPER]

I have seen great players in little ranchitos around Guadalajara. Here in L.A. there are a bunch of great players from all over the world.

[X-Caper]

In canada it's mostly southern BC, southern ontario and around montreal