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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not going to run around saying I  play with the greatest players in the greatest league when a third or more are excluded from the get go.   High end youth soccer is great and my players love it but the marketing BS should go in one ear and out the other.  It is a youth sports country club regardless of the spin.[/quote]
A third?  You are dreaming.  Over half of us families make less than 75K a year.  These families are not flying their kids around to play youth sports.  You people are so in a bubble.[/quote]

You're wrong.  Plenty of kids playing on the top teams in this area with families making less than that.  [/quote]

Define plenty.  One?  [/quote]

Between 1/3 and 1/2 the rosters on some teams.

[quote]Every family has to make their own decisions but spending gal or ecnl level money on that limited an income would be very difficult especially if the family has more than one child and is atypical.

If you have a significant number of low -income players on your team that is highly unusual.[/quote]

I didn't say it was normal for all teams - just that many of the top teams typically find ways to ensure that players who are good enough get the opporutnity to play.

[quote]Having been at this with multiple players for long enough to know something about the teams in my own children's age groups and the teams in neighboring clubs, the demographic that plays this sport are families with the disposal income available to pay the fees, the hotels, the rental cars, the gas, the plane tickets, the gear, the meals, the souvenirs, the lattes, etc.

I have yet to meet a parent without a college education[/quote]
Close to half the parents on my DS' team don't even speak English.

[quote] and I have seen the families drop out as the costs become too much of a burden.  Families with very tslented competitive, players, not bench warmers.

Nothing is wrong with developing and marketing a high end product but don't pretend that product is available to the mass market.[/quote]

I'm not pretending anything.  You are the one asserting some sort of general rule from your own experience.  I am merely saying that you are not correct - because I have specific experience of a number of teams where your rule does not hold.  I am not claiming that every team is stocked with lower income kids - just that many of the very best ones do.  And I know this for a fact.[/quote]

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