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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just another entrant in the alphabet soup of youth soccer in DC.  They would do better to try to form an alliance with an existing ECNL (or MLS Next)club to send kids their way. DC proper has too many clubs. If the 5 small clubs plus DCSC banded together, something great could happen, particularly if they had a mission of leveling the playing field for kids who may not be able to traditionally afford travel soccer.[/quote]

Touched a nerve, eh?

Somebody has to pay for it. I doubt a team of 12 with three who can afford to play are going to be happy footing the bill for nine other kids.[/quote]

ASPEN institute begs to differ.

https://projectplay.org/childrens-rights-and-sports[/quote]

I have a grand idea!  Why don't YOU pay for one child to play? Pay for two if you can afford it.   Put your money where your mouth is.

Be aware,  not everyone who says they need a "scholarship " or assistance in paying.   You won't mind though,  I'm sure.  What do you say?[/quote][/quote]

It's one thing to want to complain about fees and to worry about what they'd be if a smaller share of the club's players were able to pay. But you can't seriously be arguing that the pay-to-play system we have in U.S. soccer is good, in general. I don't see much of a path to changing it (you'd need the professional clubs to be much more dominant, revenue-wise, than they are, and you'd need a lot of lower-division smaller clubs in metro areas, so that each pro club could just set up its own academy system -- it works in Europe because soccer isn't competing for cash with football, baseball, basketball and hockey there). But our national teams, and our domestic ones, would surely be better off if money wasn't an impediment to getting kids into developmental programs.[/quote]

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