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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid played against a “tournament team” in regional futsal final a few years ago; found out after the game that the kids on this team hailed from multiple states and regions, with kids from CA, TX and even Michigan. Apparently it was cobbled together from a few different coaches that knew each other and recruited the best kids from their respective clubs to meet up for tournaments.

The best my kid’s team convincingly. It seemed a little cheap to me to have a multi-club astro-turfed “team” playing in tournaments against organic club teams, but eh what are you gonna do? It is what it is. To me it illustrates an obsession with “winning” over everything else.

Like, whoop-dee-do, if a bunch of other astro-turfed teams did the same thing and played together, you could call it a fair match. But having your flying-distance regional “tournament team” matched up against legit club teams seems unbalanced.[/quote]

I don't know.  I kinda of like it. I'm so sick of all the BS-politics and Club hierarchy.  Anytime somebody wants to go rogue and do something independent of the monopoly, I am all for it!

My friend's daughter played on a few boys team and some small independent clubs and would jump on tournament teams or as a guest tournament player (never played for a big club--traveled excessively, etc.) and she got recruited to play for an Ivy.[/quote]

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