Arsène Wenger: US soccer development will depend on ‘consistency’ and ‘education’

Former Arsenal boss calls out US pay-to-play model Wenger says academy setups are vital for growth Arsène Wenger, Fifa’s head of global football development, has said that while the US faced numerous structural obstacles to becoming a real soccer power, many of those obstacles are being addressed by leadership at the US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer. Speaking Thursday in a roundtable with US Soccer chief executive JT Batson and chief operating officer Dan Helfrich, Wenger heaped…