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[quote=Anonymous]You have to understand high level soccer in the US is a niche sport. If you take out the rec and low level travel leagues, you're left with a pretty small amount of players in the country with the skills, commitment, training, and coaching to play the type of soccer you expect and know from ECNL. Compare that with football or basketball where there are far, far more players and coaches who have a great deal of knowledge and experience with the game. There are some areas and HS teams, where they happen to have a lot of kids that play ECNL level club soccer, and those HS teams are actually quite good. But when you distribute the small number of kids that play at that club level, across all the high schools, you end up with maybe a couple per team with the rest from lower level travel or rec level players. In most of the US, including this area, soccer just isn't popular enough for strong HS teams.[/quote]
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