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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How sad. Poor kids don’t even have the ability to try out for a team.[/quote]

If they could try out for free, they still couldn't afford thousands of dollars to be on the team.[/quote]

+1. It isn’t about the best players. It is about the ones who can afford to play.

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Clubs offer aid and scholarships. Why not apply? Tryout fees do seem silly though.[/quote]

The biggest issue is [b]all the silly travel[/b].  As expensive as the fees and also requiring a huge time budget.  Not aware of clubs that cover travel costs outside of the boys MLS academy teams.

[b]Soccer is not a good activity choice for any family without a very comfortable income.[/b][/quote]

With all the good clubs in this “hotbed” of soccer, why does anyone feel the need to join a league that plays games in North Carolina and asks for commitments to tournaments in the Midwest?

PP is right: Youth soccer in America is only for wealthy suburbanites who can afford it, a model used nowhere else in the world.[/quote]

What highly competitive organized sport or activity is inexpensive? [/quote]

Around me, HS track or cross country and  HS basketball to some extent.  They obviously cost money from the school budget but anyone is the school community can participate, regardless of income and many of the kids are not spending a fortune on private teams and training to make these teams.

They may be the last ones standing as best I can tell.  Others are mostly for affluent kids now and probably going forward.  Only other exception is boys soccer for boys with access to a funded MLS academy.   In some parts of the world, soccer is very cheap for youth players and the money comes from transfer fees paid for the elite talent developed by the youth clubs.   But not here.  Here it is for well off kids with a few exceptions.[/quote]

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