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I moved to an independent club with my son because I was sick of the 1hr long training sessions from E-licensed coaches following a curriculum some TD thought up a few years and as they were phoning it in to their 2nd training session since they had taken up 3 teams to make some money on the side they weren't providing any instruction at all or correcting the boys when they say the drills being executed incorrectly.  The current team were on has 3 practices a week by a coach, whose son is on the team(why else would he do it), we have 2 hour practice sessions that start after he gets home from work which is usually by 6pm.  If you get there late, no worries as he sometimes has work issues and other parents start the kids on the warm-ups.  The trainer changes the drills and what we work depending on how the team is doing in the games, we don't have a season and practice during December/January/February and the team as a whole registers in the indoor leagues as well.  Even though I am paying less at this point than pretty much all of the clubs around the area would charge for 10-months of soccer, DS team as a whole is getting way more in training time vs games.  We are NOT required to show up in our training kits at 4:45pm for practice or have a fancy logo on our shirts or have some kind of misplaced ego because were on the "RED" or "BLUE" team or play in CCL1 or whatever stupid shiny piece the soccer clubs have come up with to separate money from their parents.  I guarantee you, soccer basis, my son's experience is better than your son's experience.[/quote]

It would be great if there were more options for quality independent teams. Some of those teams can be great but they are hard to get started.  finding a coach, field space and enough interested players can be difficult. [/quote]

The fields are monopolized by a few big County Clubs.  It is virtually impossible for an independent to get regular field space anywhere.

More and more obstacles have been put up to prevent smaller, independents from being able to compete.

It's a travesty.  It's part of the reason we are mediocre at best. [/quote]

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