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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.[/quote]

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend. [/quote]

All over the country? for a tournament in Richmond?? LOL come on. You can't seriously believe that. Maybe all over the Mid Atlantic like every other team in the tournament but not the country. I am sure the can play in a tournament in Cali, AZ or TX before coming to Richmond. [/quote]

I was doubtful of this myself, so I took 20 minutes to figure out where these Ballers Elite kids were from. Looks like 6 are from California, one is from Texas, one is from Utah, one is from Kansas, one is from Ohio, and one is from NJ. There is at least one kid on the roster from Florida who wasn't there. From what I could tell, there may be only two who play on the same California club. Everyone else seems to be on different teams, mostly 2014G and even 2014B but also 2015G for a couple CA kids. This was all pretty easy to find because they are all heavily promoted on instagram by mom, dad, whoever. Having older ECNL kids, I have to say I don't think I've seen this kind of thing allowed at Jeff Cup before but I could be wrong. I am not sure how being in that flight benefited them at all, but it is clearly getting them attention! So maybe that was the point.[/quote]

What's crazier, a super team or a grown adult stalking kid on the internet to see what club they came from, do they train together, etc....[/quote]

Sure, it was silly to take the time to see where they came from. I have no doubt other people will have the same reaction as you and that's fine. But the other poster had a legitimate argument and I agreed with them that I couldn't imagine that kids who didn't even play together on the West Coast would bother banding together for Jeff Cup. I appear to have been wrong. It doesn't exactly take stalking when their public instagrams are promoted right and left from the Ballers Elite account. But you're correct, this is 20 minutes of my life I can't get back and honestly found depressing. Like I said, my girls are older and I thankfully didn't see anything like this when they were U10. I guess the spirit of club youth soccer has changed a lot, and I'm not sure it's for the better. [/quote]

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