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[quote=Anonymous][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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Most families on non-MLS based teams are not looking for scholarships, just the admissions boost. Though some are lucky enough to get both. Almost all can easily afford the fees, which are no more expensive than EDP and probably cheaper than most ECNL teams. While there are a lot of international players in the men’s college game, many coaches prefer to recruit primarily from domestic ranks. It is not at all true in my experience that coaches at top academic schools prefer MLS Club academy players. A lot of those players are hoping to go pro and most are not nearly as focused on academics, and hence not as recruitable, as the average MLSNext player on a team not affiliated with an MLS club.[/quote]

The MLS Next players live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, have the same socio-economic and family academic backgrounds as ECNL, NAL, EDP counterparts.

Google the top 20 NCAA D1 college soccer teams and look at the roster bios. 
Facts and truth outweighs opinions and narratives.[/quote]

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