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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Overseas, there are pro clubs who recruit and scout like mad and there's everyone else. The "everyone else" is just for the kids so it's not taken that seriously... regardless off league, division, whatever.

A parallel would be if you had a kid playing basketball here in the US, you know how competitive it is to play in the NBA and how many kids have that dream are striving every day for it.

Do you care what the structure of the leagues are in your city? probably not. If your kid is in the top 10 top players in your city than maybe you care but otherwise, i doubt you will bother.

Same with soccer in Europe. And the youth leagues have had just as much time to sort themselves out as little league baseball, which barely changes ever.[/quote]

If you believe this for a minute you are mistaken.

There are levels and leagues and kids compete hard in all of them. And yes pro clubs scout the youth leagues but there are clubs who develop reputations with pro club scouts and playing for those coaches is every bit as important for the networking.

Clubs that can prove that kids can get moved up to higher levels are sought after just like here. The only real difference is in price, which can be far less because the pyramids are more streamlined and the leagues are more compressed geographically reducing travel costs significantly.

But teams play in tournaments all across Europe just like we travel all over.

The main difference is really a soccer culture, transferable soccer culture and a tremendous player pool. But to think that kids who do not make a Pro academy just treat soccer like rec is simply wrong. [/quote]

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