The A-League might continue to take great strides on field, but its getting tougher to bring talent to Australia.Emerging leagues in South-East Asia, the runaway growth of the Chinese Super League and and upturn in finances in Europe are giving A-League coaches headaches as they look to build their squads for the season ahead.Victorys Alan Baro and Western Sydney trio Bruno Pinatares, Jumpei Kusukami and Aritz Borda are among the few players to trade senior football in overseas leagues for the A-League this off-season.Victory coach Kevin Muscat said hes found it harder to lure players with the rise of other Asian leagues.Dont worry about (attracting players from) Korea because theyve always paid more than us, they dont have a salary cap, he told AAP.Theyve been left behind by the Japanese. And now China.Now all of a sudden, weve started losing players to Malaysia and Thailand. We lose targets to there and A-League players go there.Online database OzFootball shows a growing contingent of local players playing in South-East Asia, with Muscat blown away by the wages on offer.Muscat said he had spent time in Spain and Europe during the season break scouting the marketplace.I spent a week in Madrid because I really wanted to understand the Spanish market, he said.Theyve just signed a new TV rights deal for the (second-tier competition) Segunda that will treble their incomes. So weve got to start looking for the next market.The answer for Muscat is to pitch on lifestyle.It is a huge positive because its a great city and a great country, he said.Its an expensive place but it is a beautiful place.Trying to find players at a younger age is difficult because they want to stay in Europe if they can.But there is supply. 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Im my biggest competitor when it comes to that.Brown took third at a Rio test event last September at the Sambadrome venue, the iconic stadium designed for the Samba Parade at Carnival. She finished behind winner Choi Misun of South Korea and runner-up Tan Ya-Ting of Taiwan.(The stadium) is really catching to the eye, Brown said. Its going to be a really good venue.Brown will be the lone American woman competing in Rio after teammates Khatuna Lorig and Hye Youn Park narrowly missed making the Olympic squad. Lorig is a big name in archery circles for whats shes accomplished -- she was trying to make her sixth Olympic team -- and for being the one who enhanced the archery skills of actor Jennifer Lawrence for her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games.Im just going to do my best and feel like thats going to earn me a medal, Brown said.She grew up a swimmer before being introduced to archery in middle school. From the start, she was talented -- winning tournaments in divisions above her age.I grew up in deep Texas, where all I heard of was bow hunting. I had this image of the movie `Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Thats what I knew about archery, Brown said. Soon, I found out it was so much more. It was something I definitely have a passion for.Typically, she will train to music in order to work on tuning out distractions. When shes not listening to counttry stars like Garth Brooks or George Strait, shes jamming to Meghan Trainor.ddddddddddddeing able to push that (noise) away and focus on what I need to focus on, it becomes a benefit, explained Brown, whose hobby is knitting and makes garments to protect her equipment while traveling. Im just really looking forward to how things turn out.The archery competition starts Aug. 5. Here are some things to know:INSIDE SCOOPArchery targets are set up 70 meters away -- about three-fourths of an American football field -- and feature 10 rings with different point values and colors. For scoring purposes, remember this: Gold is great. White, not as much, and missing altogether even worse.KOREAN COMMANDThe South Koreans have such a deep archery program that defending mens individual champion Oh Jin-Hyek didnt make the squad. Also missing from the team is visually impaired archer Im Dong-hyun, who helped the country to a bronze medal in the team event at the 2012 London Games. On the womens side, Ki Bo-Bae will defend her gold. The South Korean women have also won every gold in the team event since it was included in 1988.BRAZILIAN HOPETeenager Marcus DAlmeida of Brazil is sometimes referred to as Archerys Neymar, because his quick rise to stardom -- much like the soccer great. DAlmeida will be one of the host countrys top medal contenders. The 18-year-old captured a silver medal at the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in 2014.AMERICAN MIGHTThe American men have a full team in Brady Ellison, Jake Kaminski and Zach Garrett. Ellison and Kaminski led the U.S. to a silver medal in the team competition at the London Olympics.QUITE AN ACHIEVEMENTZahra Nemati of Iran is scheduled to compete in both the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. The 31-year-old earned a black belt in taekwondo before she injured her spinal cord in an accident in 2004. She took up archery soon after and captured gold at the 2012 London Paralympics in the individual recurve W1/W2. ' ' '