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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s countless articles and posts about how bad the US pay to play system is. Nothing discussed in this thread is/will be any different.

How about using DCUM to organize more free play soccer for the kids?  It doesn’t have to be a full 11v11 game but rather smaller groups such as 5v5, etc. Winner stays just like street basketball. [/quote]

love this idea. maybe we can do it in summer. currently a lot of high school kids are busy with varsity soccer at Virginia.[/quote]

+1. Parents hold the key to this. If people are able to organize large snowball fights, it shouldn’t be difficult to organize these types of soccer games in local parks, communities, etc. [/quote]

Sadly, people do try to organize pick up soccer on the board and guess what, noone shows.  It's all talk that people want their kids to do pick up.  It's just a buzz word to them.  Summer is right around the corner.  There will be plenty of pick up soccer opportunities.  Very few will attend....again.[/quote]

Some of it is a field space issue. But I agree with the idea of fun, unstructured play. If I could do it over again, that's what I would have tried to encourage/organize when my kids were younger.

To add to the valid points that other kids were making, looking back I realize that for one of my kids, the revolving door of a club he was with which included bringing upon the best younger kids to play important games and regularly bringing in new kids from outside the club created a situation where he was no longer playing. Instead of an opportunity to play, each game felt like a tryout required to keep his spot. That constant pressure too young ruined the game for him. It's not like the team was going to win some national championship. They were a very good team at the regional level, but clubs are always trying to be more.[/quote]

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