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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. At the top levels of travel soccer, the parents, er, I mean, kids are obsessed with getting to commit to a college and thus justify the money otherwise wasted. There is no sense of team - the players are in it for themselves only. The clubs know this and cater to it, and most are focused on trumpeting all their college commitments (even D3 commits are celebrated). No one involved in travel soccer cares at all about a “team.” It’s a foreign concept. Parents move their kids like cattle between clubs. [/quote]

Then why leagues like ECNL/GA exist at all. The argument of not everyone’s college material contradicts the ECNL mission. Soccer is a team sport not an individual sport that’s what many people tend to ignore cause they only care for their own benefit. For example a club need to select more than 11 players in order to exist/subsist/compete. However the same club tells the 12-18 player that they are average and they are not college material.[/quote]

Surely you jest 
You ever see a college scout recruit a team?
No. They recruit individuals.

Soccer teams are a group of individuals

Spend more time focused honestly on why your kid is in the 12-18 bench group and what they need to do better and differently to be in the 1-11 group 
There's no entitlement past the kiddie stage. [/quote]

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