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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids playing for free dominate the kids (parents) spending over $10,000 per season?

So what's the $$$$$ getting you?[/quote]

Well, our mlsnext team was $2500 this year, less than many other third and fourth teams.  We have never paid anywhere close to $10k.[/quote]

Wow, $2,500 for yearly fee would indeed be among the lowest for any regular travel club in DMV.

Who pays for gear, equipment, all travel expenses (gas, hotel, food, flights etc)?
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It was less than $300 round trip to fly to west coast. group hotel rates are cheap. It certainly wasn't an additional $8k for all of that.[/quote]

Justification self therapy hard at work :-)

So you're saying you and your son flew to the West Coast from DMV for a tournament and paid under $150 each round trip?
You may be on to something in how to do MLS Next on the cheap. 
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You have spent all morning shifting arguments.  Abandoning your prior positions by restatement is still abandoning your prior positions.  Get some critical thinking skills into your life please.[/quote]

How's this for critical thinking.
Philly Union completely dominated the two biggest MLS Next Affiliate clubs from the DMV. They showed they are on a completely different higher level.
It is free for parents whos kids are at Philly Union.

To wear the MLS Next badge on their shoulder, honest parents at affiliate clubs state they are spending around $10K annually in expenditures. 
So, what is the true value for spending that much money? 
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Do you really not know? The value is in the admissions boost a recruited athlete will get to an academically elite college. In our son’s case it came with significant athletic scholarship as well. Also, no one is paying close to $10k for a local MLSNext team unless the whole family travels to all showcases and stays someplace fancy. [/quote]

There is not a lot of scholarship money floating around for soccer.
The colleges now prioritize International recruits, followed by MLS Club Academy players.
Then MLS Next and ECNL.
The rosters don't lie.

$3,500 - $4,000 club fee for year
Have to purchase training and game gear
Several weekends travel to NY, NJ, PA, DE
Travel to national tournaments
May not all be at $10K per family per player, but it's up there, no?
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no.  My son's club fee is $3,100.  There will be one trip to a showcase requiring flights and hotels.  There are, I think, maybe two weekend travel trips that require a hotel because there are back-to-back games in NJ or PA.

I assume you're not comparing MLS Next to ECNL in this value conversation, since they're about the same.

For us, the value gained playing for an MLS Next squad, far exceeds an EDP or NCSL team in the same age group.  He plays around 28 league games, friendlies, 4 tournaments, and practices 4X a week for 1.5 hours on a team with a well-qualified, excellent coach and assistant coach.  The club provides buses to the games more than 3 hours away.  All of his teammates are high level players, as are all of his opponents.

Compare that to the average EDP team which costs $2,500, provides 2 or 3 practices, plays between 16-20 games plus tournaments, and has a wide variance in the quality of coaches and players.  Some of the parents of good players in this situation supplement with ODP to have the chance to play with and against higher quality players.  That makes their costs higher than ours.  Travelling to Baltimore for an EDP game from Northern VA, for instance, isn't all that different than travelling to Lancaster or Philly.  And anyone on any team has to purchase "training and game gear."

The "value" is not really very close.

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