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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]seems to mirror what the article is saying [/quote]

No - it is the opposite of what the article was saying.
  
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"It was pretty much all white girls,” she says.
"It’s disproportionately white and upper-middle-class"
"Then he’d look around soccer boardrooms, and out onto fields, and wonder: “Why doesn't soccer in America look like America?”"
Me:
That's not my experience.  My daughters' teams have been mixed reflecting the general population.  My son's teams have been disproprtionately high in minority kids.
Others on this thread have pointed out that when you lok out onto college and MLS soccer fields you find predominantly minority players,

[quote]It’s disproportionately white and upper-middle-class[/quote] Girls soccer isn't all white or all UMC, it's just disproportionally so - 25% on scholarship means 75% not and scholarships may or may not cover actual travel expenses and certainly don't free up parents to get kids to practices and games. My DD has never played on an all white team, but she's also never played on one (and rarely against one that is minority white or even close to it). [/quote]

I would agree that girls teams are rarely minority white - but that's what one would expect from the raw numbers.
It is much more common for boys teams, especially at the higher levels of play.[/quote]

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