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[quote=Dcum1300][quote=soccer_dc][quote=Dcum1300][quote=Manodedios]It’s great that all of these mergers of clubs that are an hour  away from one another are happening so that about a dozen adults can stay employed as mediocre (at-best) TDs/Directors. Meanwhile, 1000s of kids are wasting time they could be on the field in the car and we are burning enough gas to keep a small gulf nation encrusted in gold.[/quote]

Spot on. Youth soccer exists to support and ensure the livelihoods of a few select club administrators that honestly aren’t very good at their jobs. Seemingly very few decisions are made for the benefit of the players and families. [/quote]

Youth soccer exists in its current form because [b]parents[/b] have created the demand for it. Clubs can only charge as much money as the demand will allow, can only have travel to far away practices and games because parents allow and want it, and can only sustain the number of teams because there are that many players and parents willing to go along. It's naive to think the current system is a result of a handful of administrators concocting a scheme to ensure their livelihoods. There are two sides to every market. Youth soccer wouldn't exist if there wasn't parents demanding it.[/quote]

Those statements can both be true. Parents may have created the demand but the administrators certainly are not blameless in the decisions they make that only serve their own self-interests. [/quote]

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