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Former Germany international striker and current Red Bull Soccer technical director Mario Gomez believes there will be plenty of growth within the United States soccer scene in the coming years.
Gomez, who oversees development at multiple Red Bull owned clubs across the world, has his eyes across the world looking for the latest talent to bring to clubs in Brazil, Germany, and the USA.
Speaking to a group of journalists at the team's training facility in Leipzig, Gomez praised the potential for American soccer in the next decade.
'I'm super excited about football there the next couple, probably 5-10 years, because let's be honest, soccer in the US, it's not number one, not at all,' Gomez said.
'There are [other] sports, and probably it will be always like this. But I would say 95% of the countries all over the world, football is number one, and [in the US] there's a huge potential.
Red Bull technical director Mario Gomez sees massive growth potential in American soccer
'In your country, I can see millions of kids starting to play. You guys are crazy good athletes. I mean, of course, you have millions of good footballers, but we have to find them and we have to develop them and we have to help them to be better.
'That's one of the things we have to do better, for sure. We did it already in the past, but nobody recognizes our team [RB Leipzig] as a development machine of young Americans, bringing them, for example, to Europe...
'First step is to be very successful there and then creating very successful football players. And then probably, we will see many more Tyler Adams' in Europe.
'The potential, to me, is really huge. I believe that football will have a different position in the future in the US.'
Taking Gomez's job into account, he probably hopes that the New York Red Bulls could be at the forefront of that improvement.
So far this season, the Red Bulls have shocked MLS with a blinding start that sees them sitting in fourth place in the league and second place in the Eastern Conference behind Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.
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