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Congratulations! Your child has been chosen for this special opportunity! Sign up! Oh, and by the way you just have to fly to..........to partake. This one is much better then some others which charge the players for everything. There is some pressure felt to say yes to these things. Enjoy it. Please do. I don't really like the way kids get "chosen" and pressured for every costly "opportunities". Some programs are better then others. |
And yours hasn’t been chosen. Being chosen is free by the way. |
Go have fun playing soccer in the Bahamas or Spain or Italy or wherever you go. Hopefully your player will turn out to be less of an arrogant prick then you. Turning these "opportunities" down is uncomfortable and involves telling white lies that you have this conflict or that conflict. Listen bubble boy, no one is going to say they cant afford it. ID2 is the same way. Free but you have to get your player to the location (not foreign locals but can be distant). I have even seen go fund me pages of people asking for money to send there kids to Europe to pay soccer because they were "selected" to go. That is a scam on top of top of a scam. Your player is fortunate that he can afford to benefit. You are living in a fantasy world if you dont accept that there are very talented players that are not accepting invitations to the Bahamas or Europe or wherever. |
| Did FCV make their cuts yet? |
Next year they will be taking the team parents to Jamestown. |
Next year they will be taking the team parents to Jonestown. |
You just said how impossible it is to say no to these opportunities for three paragraphs and then you end with “there are very talented players that are not accepting invitations” You’re a tool. |
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Your an aggressive know it all that can't read. Uncomfortable is uncomfortable not impossible. If I thought it was impossible to turn these down I would have written impossible.
Parent of a strong player like every one else on a soccer forum. Who else would even bother with this nonsense. Presumably your player gets invited to these far flung soccer "opportunities' so you know how it works. |
And your’s doesn’t get invited so you have no idea. |
Oh brother. Go on the trip and enjoy it. Everyone I know that has gone has had a great experience. |
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Ignore that douchebag. You are correct. |
+1000 |
Very true. It's an experience that they will remember for the rest of their lives. |
Question is why? Not if it is exclusionary. What do the people involved get out of this? 1. The coaches attending won’t pay. ECNL will cover their cost and they’ll spend a lot of time drinking in the hotel 2. The players will learn it’s hot and the fields suck and their “all star” team can probably beat the Bahamas Nationa Team 3. They’ll learn more about the blue water and white sand than anything else 4. No one will ever calculate the lost development opportunity they missed if this had been run like a true development camp in an affordable US location |