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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I hear about what families do for their child players it blows my mind. Driving from Rockville to Arlington is nothing. Some FLY to practice. Or move to high altitude. Quit jobs and school to home-school. And this kind of thing is usually decided by age 10. It’s really amazing. [/quote]

I've never heard of "flying to practice. " I have heard of kids who play on a team states away who train on their own then the whole team gets together once a month to practice together. [/quote]

I have witnessed 2 examples to support the above statement.  
1.) We know one family who decide to homeschool in order to train soccer in the morning.  Then they guest play with top teams around the country in top tournaments. This is starting at age 8.

2.) And one family decide to relocate to for the sole purpose of getting their kids to play on some of the top California ECNL teams.

Which, to be honest, is no different that Lindsay Vaughn's family deciding to move to Vail when she was 10.  But yeah, obviously the parents want it a sh$t-ton more than the kids to do stuff like that.[/quote]

Wow. What value are they getting out of this craziness? I would do it if I have a crystal ball telling me one day DD will become a pro getting paid like Men soccer in Europe or Saudi League and will get a percentage from these clubs like Real Madrid, City and go retire in a private island. Otherwise, I drive my kid in the DMV area clubs and focus on academics.[/quote]
It’s not about value. It’s about trying to win the celebrity lottery. There are a handful of success stories but for every Lindsay Vaughn and Taylor Swift who moved to Nashville, there are way more kids who didn’t make it, sacrificed school, friends, went into huge debt, and are much worse off because their parents were unrealistic about their own kid and plenty of people are willing to cash in on them.[/quote]

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