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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The 6-10k number is for real. Here is a rough breakdown for a typical year (i.e. not a COVID year). Overnight stays are based on an average of $250/night stay to include hotel, gas, meals. You might spend more or less. Keep in mind that for teams that bus, as a parent, you pay for your kids bus ride, a shared hotel room, and meals. Then you have to get your own room and travel if you plan to go. You might be closer to $6k if you don't go yourself.  Note that this does not include any personal training or national finals.

Club dues $2500
team fees  $800 team fees (coach travel, referees, video service, incidentals)
uniforms and equipment $200
four league game weekend trips @ $500 ea, $2000  (there are 8 out of state teams in girls MA, each weekend you play two teams, requiring two overnight stays)
three showcase weekend trips @500 each, $1500
1 week trip to national playoffs/showcase, 7 nights@$250, $1750
total $8750[/quote]

And yet honestly...all the silly travel does not help them improve their soccer.   It is a very very wasteful system that is about running a biz and not really about finding and developing soccer talent.   If this was the way to find and develop soccer talent, other places would do it and yet..NONE of the great soccer countries do this.

That said.  It is what it is and there is no other option for higher level play here unless you have a boy in a funded academy.    It is soccer for well off players with very very few exceptions.[/quote]

The US is different from the other "great soccer countries". Their methods do not work here, and vice versa. It is what it is, if you can afford it, go for it. If not, there are other avenues.
Despite all of this, this system is working, and is keeping the college and NWSL ranks flush with talent (talking girls side here). You can't say that soccer talent isn't being developed amidst all of this. [/quote]

I can absolutely say that take talent is not being well developed.  You can't be serious.   All that time driving and flying is a complete waste and it cuts out kids that could prove to be very sharp competitive training partners.  It is really a stupid system but for girls, it is all there is.[/quote]

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