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[quote=Anonymous]AAU is pay to play. So is travel baseball and football. All highly competitive youth sports are pay to play now. The slight difference is that HS b-ball, baseball, and football are “free” (tax payer funded w/ low player registration fees) and competitive while HS soccer, in many cases, is not very competitive. Why? Due to DA and (historically) ECNL poo-pooing of HS soccer and gravitation of better coaches away from HS soccer to clubs. But, even the best b-ball and football HS teams are private schools that recruit and partially or fully pay for the top prep stars to come play for them. This is not a problem unique to soccer. It is just that there is a larger money train for the other sports in US, so more people are willing to help the poorer kids in hopes for a agent or shoe company kickback or future payout. [/quote]
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