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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called capitalism and individual choice. Everything in the US works this way. The market ultimately decides how these things work, not some top down authority saying how everything should be. Customers willing to pay for something drives it. Is it the ideal way to develop soccer players? Probably not but not necessarily because the same types of systems exist in other sports and it works (sometimes). [/quote]

I don't know -- we're not as dominant in basketball as we used to be.

You're right -- the market is deciding such things. US Soccer *could* step in and try to sort it all out, but they're already facing enough lawsuits.

So the key is trying to educate parents to make better choices. Along those lines: No, volunteer parents aren't necessarily worse than "pro" coaches. A volunteer parent may have the same level of coaching education as the "pro," and they're going to be better at dealing with kids than some 25-year-old who hasn't around 9-year-olds since he was 9 himself.

I see so many travel coaches out there who I can't believe get paid for what they do. Meanwhile, in Iceland, everyone and his dog has a B license.[/quote]
The distinction is not between volunteers and professional soccer coaches. It's between volunteers and people getting paid to do a job. Clubs are businesses and need to find workers to pay to coach their teams. Sometimes there are "real" coaches with real experience and talent who apply for these jobs. Sometimes it's just someone trying to make a living. Just like some volunteers can be very qualified while some can just be doing it because there was a need. In general, the more you are paying the higher chance there is to get a qualified coach. Of course it doesn't always work out perfectly but again, the market and capitalism does its thing.[/quote]

This is why I'm turning more socialist as I get older.   :)[/quote]

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