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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least Arlington has one or two standout ECNL teams on the girls side. [/quote] True test will come during the playoffs.[/quote] The true test is college commits. Every girl on the oldest Arlington Team is committed. That is what ECNL is about. Not playoffs.[/quote] Mediocre Arlington at it again, but this mom is right it’s about playing mediocre soccer at the ncaa level. Congrats ECNL![/quote] All joking aside -- what if it is? What if that is what it all is about? Playing soccer -- helping get into a better school than you otherwise would have, maybe for money in D1, and go to college and live your life. What is that was the end game and no one cared if others though mediocre. Yale plays mediocre football at best. Most of that team end up as doctors, lawyers, bankers, and executives later in life. Do you think they cared that someone else thought they played mediocre football? Not for one second.[/quote] If that is the attitude about futbol, then just go to bleeping college - in this area most people paying and playing club have the money for college - and leave futbol to the futbolistas! Our game is not some vehicle for upper middle class white kids to bridge into the 1%…[/quote] This is an interesting debate.[b] As a middle-class family in the area in ECNL, we do not have the money saved for colleg[/b]e. Be it, a college soccer scholarship for most is probably only 25% to 50%. We push academics first with the hopes for both academic and sports scholarships. While we spend a lot on Club Soccer, the benefits of the cost are worth it. Most importantly our children stay busy all of the time and are less likely to get caught up in the riff raff of drugs, crime, etc. Second is the life skill of learning how to work with a team, being a leader, following direction, staying healthy and many other reasons. If it wasn't soccer, it would be gymnastics, softball, lacrosse, basketball, or pick your poison.[/quote] If you had saved all the money you spent on club soccer over the years, you would have decent college savings. [/quote] Yes but they would have been "caught up in the riff raff of drugs, crime, etc" Apparently it's a choice between soccer and a life of crime.[/quote] Straight outta Clemyjontri [/quote] I lol’d. [/quote]
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