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OP, let me know when you get off your righteous soap box. Curious to know what prompted this rant. [/quote]

Another point of clarification. If you've bookmarked this website, you've already self-selected to the option A parent, so I don't expect anything short of "you're an idiot, get off your soapbox" stuff in response. My hope is all the ones who stumble on this via google search like I did get some perspective so we might actually have another Pulisic in our ranks in the next few years. [/quote]

You missed my point. I think most parents, especially those of DA or ECNL boys or girls, have a very realistic understanding of options that are available to their kids. We have an older boy towards the end of his DA career, and I can tell you that most parents on his team understand how unlikely a pro career would be. To go a step further, most would rather their kid not to be playing in MLS in their mid twenties, making the minimum or something around that range, like most of the young players in MLS. We’d rather have our kids go to a good college and leverage their education for a good job, having nothing to do with soccer.

At the end of that day, it is a fun sport. Like any team sport, it teaches good life lessons. If you are good enough to leverage it into a better college than you might otherwise get into (ignoring scholarship dollars, which are not with the cost of travel soccer), then all the better.  But our kids love playing, happen to be ok at it, and we are blessed to have the ability to allow our kids to play, have fun, and make friendships that may last a lifetime. As parents, we have formed a number of friendships with other parents that will last long after our kids stop playing.  You cannot put a price on that. [/quote]

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