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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^its not the same on the boys side.  Some of the best players I’ve seen did not start at the 3 big clubs in this area.[/quote]

You all seem yo think the only way a child can learn to play soccer is by being on a soccer team and going to the 1.5 hour practices twice a week.  Would you be saying the same thing about big vs small if the sport was basketball? I'd venture to think not.[/quote]

Nope, we wouldn't.  Soccer is a wealthy man's sport in the U.S..  If you can't pay-to-play and you can't politic your way in---your chances are nil at being 'seen' by college coaches, much less National team and beyond.

If you aren't in a stupid feeder system, that's it.  It is complete BS to tell any kid in this country 'if you are good enough, we will find you'.  It does not work that way in this sport, in this country.

Even the HS teams in this area are direct feeders from the travel teams and some of the HS coaches are even travel coaches from the Clubs the students play for.  Walk-ons not part of that travel team are unheard of.

That said, I've met some unbelievable soccer players whose parents know that's the story, but refuse to pay and be part of the feeder system when the training is inferior to what they could do on their own and with better trainers outside of the Big Club business. Hopefully, there will be a place where these kids at 16/17 can be seen and the 'cream theory' will hold.  Who knows? You would hope if they got good enough they would actually be able to get a fair tryout somewhere---but they even determine who gets invited to those and which field the kids get put on (the one they watch, vs the one just for show/to say they held it).

And, yes, this is boys we are talking about.  Girls soccer is very different.[/quote]

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