People keep expecting the US to produce a "star" player and it's just not going happen. The MLS outside of its own academies provides zero financial compensation or pay down fees for homegrown talent. Until their is a system in place where better coaching and training is adequately funded.... we won't produce jack shit. We haven't even produced a generation of players to rival Landon Donovan and Damarcus Beasley. It as much two steps forward, three steps back as anything else.