[MY VIEW] The USA continued its streak of being the only nation to have qualified for all 14 Under-17 World Cups with five wins in five games at the 2011Concacaf Under-17 Championship in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Despite Sunday’s 3-0 overtime triumph by Wilmer Cabrera‘s boys over Canada, it’s clear the under-17residency program launched by U.S. Soccer in 1999 and based in Bradenton, Fla., has run its course.

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